peach12345 commented on code in PR #14932:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14932#discussion_r2727031271


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api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/catalog/TableIdentifier.java:
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@@ -26,10 +27,10 @@
 import org.apache.iceberg.relocated.com.google.common.collect.Iterables;
 
 /** Identifies a table in iceberg catalog. */
-public class TableIdentifier {
+public class TableIdentifier implements Serializable {

Review Comment:
   The parsing function is, of course, working as intended.
   However, in the CatalogTableLoader class, when you pass in a 
TableIdentifier, the identifier is stored as a string:
   
   ```
   private CatalogTableLoader(CatalogLoader catalogLoader, TableIdentifier 
tableIdentifier) {
         this.catalogLoader = catalogLoader;
         this.identifier = tableIdentifier.toString();
       }
   ```
   
   Later, when calling the loadTable function, that string is parsed again. 
This fails when the table name contains dots:
   
   ```
   public Table loadTable() {
         FlinkEnvironmentContext.init();
         return catalog.loadTable(TableIdentifier.parse(identifier));
         return catalog.loadTable(identifier);
       }
   ```
   
   That’s why storing the full TableIdentifier object instead of its string 
representation makes more sense.
   Fixing the parsing function to properly handle dots would also be a valid 
approach, but in my experience, relying on parsing often leads to subtle errors 
or bugs.



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