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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-6442: --------------------------------------- Github user wuchong commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3829#discussion_r134180276 --- Diff: flink-libraries/flink-table/src/test/scala/org/apache/flink/table/utils/CsvSQLTableSink.scala --- @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +/* + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one + * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file + * distributed with this work for additional information + * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file + * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the + * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance + * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at + * + * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 + * + * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software + * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, + * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. + * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and + * limitations under the License. + */ + +package org.apache.flink.table.utils + +import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation +import org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.RowTypeInfo +import org.apache.flink.core.fs.FileSystem.WriteMode +import org.apache.flink.table.sinks.CsvTableSink +import org.apache.flink.types.Row + +class CsvSQLTableSink( --- End diff -- The `CsvSQLTableSink` is never used, should we remove this? > Extend TableAPI Support Sink Table Registration and ‘insert into’ Clause in > SQL > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: FLINK-6442 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-6442 > Project: Flink > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Table API & SQL > Reporter: lincoln.lee > Assignee: lincoln.lee > Priority: Minor > > Currently in TableAPI there’s only registration method for source table, > when we use SQL writing a streaming job, we should add additional part for > the sink, like TableAPI does: > {code} > val sqlQuery = "SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE _1 = 3" > val t = StreamTestData.getSmall3TupleDataStream(env) > tEnv.registerDataStream("MyTable", t) > // one way: invoke tableAPI’s writeToSink method directly > val result = tEnv.sql(sqlQuery) > result.writeToSink(new YourStreamSink) > // another way: convert to datastream first and then invoke addSink > val result = tEnv.sql(sqlQuery).toDataStream[Row] > result.addSink(new StreamITCase.StringSink) > {code} > From the api we can see the sink table always be a derived table because its > 'schema' is inferred from the result type of upstream query. > Compare to traditional RDBMS which support DML syntax, a query with a target > output could be written like this: > {code} > insert into table target_table_name > [(column_name [ ,...n ])] > query > {code} > The equivalent form of the example above is as follows: > {code} > tEnv.registerTableSink("targetTable", new YourSink) > val sql = "INSERT INTO targetTable SELECT a, b, c FROM sourceTable" > val result = tEnv.sql(sql) > {code} > It is supported by Calcite’s grammar: > {code} > insert:( INSERT | UPSERT ) INTO tablePrimary > [ '(' column [, column ]* ')' ] > query > {code} > I'd like to extend Flink TableAPI to support such feature. see design doc: > https://goo.gl/n3phK5 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)