feat(rest): add RegisterView to REST catalog#753
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Description:
Closes #[issue] (file the companion issue first and link it here)
Adds RegisterView(ctx, identifier, metadataLocation) to rest.Catalog,
the view equivalent of the existing RegisterTable. The method POSTs to POST
/v1/{prefix}/namespaces/{namespace}/register-view as defined in the
Iceberg REST catalog OpenAPI specification.
Motivation
The only way to migrate a view between REST catalogs without this method is
LoadView + CreateView. That approach is lossy: CreateView resets version-id to 1,
reassigns default-catalog to the target catalog name, and creates a new UUID
— producing a new view rather than a registration of the existing one.
RegisterView avoids all of this by pointing the target catalog at the existing
metadata file, exactly as RegisterTable does for tables.
Changes
- catalog/rest/rest.go: RegisterView on *Catalog — POSTs {name, metadata-location}
to /namespaces/{ns}/register-view, parses the response through the existing loadViewResponse
path, maps 404 → ErrNoSuchNamespace and 409 → ErrViewAlreadyExists.
- catalog/rest/rest_test.go: three test cases covering the 200, 404, and 409 responses,
following the same structure as the existing TestRegisterTable{200,404,409} tests.
Related
- Java implementation: apache/iceberg#14868
- REST OpenAPI spec: open-api/rest-catalog-open-api.yaml — operationId registerView
- Mailing list discussion: https://lists.apache.org/thread/mxqz0fp6vz3nt7nl70wgrz6d2gr41rzj
Signed-off-by: Shubhendu Ram Tripathi <shubhendu@minio.io>
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Description:
Adds RegisterView(ctx, identifier, metadataLocation) to rest.Catalog, the view equivalent of the existing RegisterTable. The method POSTs to POST /v1/{prefix}/namespaces/{namespace}/register-view as defined in the Iceberg REST catalog OpenAPI specification.
Motivation
Fixes: #752
The only way to migrate a view between REST catalogs without this method is LoadView + CreateView. That approach is lossy: CreateView resets version-id to 1, reassigns default-catalog to the target catalog name, and creates a new UUID — producing a new view rather than a registration of the existing one. RegisterView avoids all of this by pointing the target catalog at the existing metadata file, exactly as RegisterTable does for tables.
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