akhileshmalavalli opened a new issue, #38055:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/38055

   ### What would you like to happen?
   
   ## Summary
   Today, Beam supports dynamic destination routing for Iceberg, but the input 
PCollection<Row> still requires a single Beam schema. This makes it difficult 
to build generic ingestion pipelines where:
   - new event types can appear dynamically
   - each event type maps to a different Iceberg table
   - each event type has its own schema
   
   ## Problem
   A common ingestion pattern is:
   1. Read generic events from a streaming pipeline like Pub/Sub
   2. Determine destination table from an attribute like event_type
   3. Fetch the schema for that event type dynamically from a central schema 
store
   4. Write each record to its corresponding Iceberg table
   
   This works conceptually for table routing, but breaks down because 
PCollection<Row> has one schema for the entire collection. In practice, that 
means:
   - dynamic table name is possible
   - dynamic schema per destination is not
   - newly introduced event types require pipeline changes
   
   ## What is needed?
   We need per-destination schema, similar to [BigQuery 
DynamicDestinations](https://beam.apache.org/releases/javadoc/current/org/apache/beam/sdk/io/gcp/bigquery/DynamicDestinations.html).
   
   Example Idea:
   ```
   IcebergIO.write()
     .to(new DynamicDestinations<InputT, DestinationT>() {
         @Override
         public DestinationT getDestination(ValueInSingleWindow<InputT> 
element) { ... }
   
         @Override
         public String getTableIdentifier(DestinationT destination) { ... }
   
         @Override
         public org.apache.iceberg.Schema getSchema(DestinationT destination) { 
... }
     })```
   
   ### Issue Priority
   
   Priority: 2 (default / most feature requests should be filed as P2)
   
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