TableService¶

TableService is an API service of UnityCatalogServer to handle HTTP requests at /api/2.1/unity-catalog/tables URL.

Method	URL	Handler	Params
GET	`/`	listTables	catalog_name schema_name max_results page_token omit_properties omit_columns
POST	`/`	createTable	JSON-ified CreateTable
GET	`/{full_name}`	getTable	fullName
DELETE	`/{full_name}`	deleteTable	fullName

$ http http://localhost:8080/api/2.1/unity-catalog/tables catalog_name==unity schema_name==default | jq '.tables[].name'
"numbers"
"marksheet_uniform"
"marksheet"

Creating Instance¶

TableService takes the following to be created:

UnityCatalogAuthorizer

While being created, TableService creates an UnityAccessEvaluator.

TableService is created when:

UnityCatalogServer is requested to register the API services

UnityAccessEvaluator¶

TableService creates an UnityAccessEvaluator (with the given UnityCatalogAuthorizer) when created.

Create Table Metadata¶

HttpResponse createTable(
  CreateTable createTable)

createTable handles POST requests with the following AuthorizeKeys:

Value	Key
`SCHEMA`	`schema_name`
`CATALOG`	`catalog_name`

createTable requests the system-wide TableRepository instance to persist the given table metadata.

List Tables¶

HttpResponse listTables(
  String catalogName,
  String schemaName,
  Optional<Integer> maxResults,
  Optional<String> pageToken,
  Optional<Boolean> omitProperties,
  Optional<Boolean> omitColumns)

listTables requests the system-wide TableRepository instance to list the tables.