rdblue commented on code in PR #7880:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/7880#discussion_r1252375646


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core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/view/ViewOperations.java:
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+/*
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+package org.apache.iceberg.view;
+
+import org.apache.iceberg.io.FileIO;
+
+/** SPI interface to abstract view metadata access and updates. */
+public interface ViewOperations {
+
+  /**
+   * Return the currently loaded view metadata, without checking for updates.
+   *
+   * @return view metadata
+   */
+  ViewMetadata current();
+
+  /**
+   * Return the current view metadata after checking for updates.
+   *
+   * @return view metadata
+   */
+  ViewMetadata refresh();
+
+  /**
+   * Replace the base view metadata with a new version.
+   *
+   * <p>This method should implement and document atomicity guarantees.
+   *
+   * <p>Implementations must check that the base metadata is current to avoid 
overwriting updates.
+   * Once the atomic commit operation succeeds, implementations must not 
perform any operations that
+   * may fail because failure in this method cannot be distinguished from 
commit failure.
+   *
+   * <p>Implementations must throw a {@link
+   * org.apache.iceberg.exceptions.CommitStateUnknownException} in cases where 
it cannot be
+   * determined if the commit succeeded or failed. For example if a network 
partition causes the
+   * confirmation of the commit to be lost, the implementation should throw a
+   * CommitStateUnknownException. This is important because downstream users 
of this API need to
+   * know whether they can clean up the commit or not, if the state is unknown 
then it is not safe
+   * to remove any files. All other exceptions will be treated as if the 
commit has failed.
+   *
+   * @param base view metadata on which changes were based
+   * @param metadata new view metadata with updates
+   */
+  void commit(ViewMetadata base, ViewMetadata metadata);
+
+  /** Returns a {@link FileIO} to read and write view files. */
+  FileIO io();

Review Comment:
   Yes. This should not be public.



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