Repository navigation
Open
Description
Add support for persisted Iceberg SQL views so C++ applications can create, inspect, and manage view definitions through a REST catalog.
The initial metadata types and validation are under review in #1069. This issue tracks the complete implementation and expands the view-related work listed in #273.
Proposed scope
- View metadata types, version history, representations, and validation — feat(view): add view metadata types and validation #1069.
- View metadata JSON parsing and serialization, including preservation of unknown representation payloads.
- View update and requirement types matching the REST wire contract.
- A metadata builder for schema/version reuse, ordered updates, history retention, and dialect-removal checks.
- A separate ViewCatalog interface and View handle, with an in-memory implementation for lifecycle tests.
- REST read operations: load, exists, and paginated list.
- REST mutations: create, replace, rename, drop, and register, plus property and location updates.
Expected behavior
- Existing table catalog APIs remain compatible.
- View handles expose immutable metadata snapshots. Refresh checks the view UUID and installs metadata and response configuration together.
- SQL representation lookup matches dialects without regard to ASCII case and reports an absent dialect.
- REST operations honor advertised endpoints and reuse existing authentication and error-handling behavior.
- Mutations preserve ordered update semantics and report uncertain commit outcomes without automatically replaying the commit.
Validation
- Metadata and JSON tests using view-format fixtures from the Java and Rust implementations.
- In-memory lifecycle tests covering history, rollback, schema/version reuse, refresh, and snapshot immutability.
- REST tests for request/response handling, endpoint discovery, pagination, conflicts, and uncertain commit outcomes.
- A reference REST catalog integration test covering create, load, replace, rename, and drop.
SQL parsing and planning, materialized views, production storage in non-REST backends, and conditional replacement beyond the standard REST requirements are outside this initial scope.
References:
Metadata
Metadata
Assignees
Labels
No labels
Activity