n3nash commented on a change in pull request #2927: URL: https://github.com/apache/hudi/pull/2927#discussion_r630704955
########## File path: hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/common/table/TableSchemaResolver.java ########## @@ -353,6 +360,89 @@ public static boolean isSchemaCompatible(String oldSchema, String newSchema) { return isSchemaCompatible(new Schema.Parser().parse(oldSchema), new Schema.Parser().parse(newSchema)); } + /** + * Get latest schema either from incoming schema or table schema. + * @param incomingSchema incoming batch's schema. + * @param convertTableSchemaToAddNamespace {@code true} if table schema needs to be converted to add namespace. false otherwise. + * @param converterFn converter function to be called over table schema. + * @return the latest schema. + */ + public Schema getLatestSchema(Schema incomingSchema, boolean convertTableSchemaToAddNamespace, + Function1<Schema, Schema> converterFn) { + Schema latestSchema = incomingSchema; + try { + if (isTimelineNonEmpty()) { + Schema tableSchema = getTableAvroSchemaWithoutMetadataFields(); + if (convertTableSchemaToAddNamespace) { + tableSchema = converterFn.apply(tableSchema); + } + if (incomingSchema.getFields().size() < tableSchema.getFields().size() && isSchemaSubset(tableSchema, incomingSchema)) { Review comment: Yes, that's true in general but we don't support it in Hudi. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org