pvary commented on code in PR #12774: URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/12774#discussion_r2066040201
########## data/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/data/AppenderBuilder.java: ########## @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one + * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file + * distributed with this work for additional information + * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file + * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the + * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance + * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, + * software distributed under the License is distributed on an + * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY + * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the + * specific language governing permissions and limitations + * under the License. + */ +package org.apache.iceberg.data; + +import java.io.IOException; +import org.apache.iceberg.Schema; +import org.apache.iceberg.io.FileAppender; + +/** + * Builder for generating a {@link FileAppender}. + * + * @param <B> type of the builder + * @param <E> engine specific schema of the input records used for appender initialization + */ +public interface AppenderBuilder<B extends AppenderBuilder<B, E>, E> Review Comment: Flink depends on `BaseTaskWriter` to implement the writers, and `BaseTaskWriter` needs `FileAppenderFactory` and `Appender`a to work. Also there might be some other engines still depending on the `FileAppenderFactory` and `FileAppender` API which is not deprecated. All-in-all, I think we need this. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@iceberg.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@iceberg.apache.org