Github user pnowojski commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6323#discussion_r202289678
  
    --- Diff: 
flink-libraries/flink-table/src/main/scala/org/apache/flink/table/catalog/ExternalTableSourceUtil.scala
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    @@ -44,32 +43,27 @@ object ExternalTableSourceUtil extends Logging {
         val properties = new DescriptorProperties()
         externalCatalogTable.addProperties(properties)
         val javaMap = properties.asMap
    -    val source = TableFactoryService.find(classOf[TableSourceFactory[_]], 
javaMap)
    -      .asInstanceOf[TableSourceFactory[_]]
    -      .createTableSource(javaMap)
         tableEnv match {
           // check for a batch table source in this batch environment
           case _: BatchTableEnvironment =>
    -        source match {
    -          case bts: BatchTableSource[_] =>
    -            new TableSourceSinkTable(Some(new BatchTableSourceTable(
    -              bts,
    -              new FlinkStatistic(externalCatalogTable.getTableStats))), 
None)
    -          case _ => throw new TableException(
    -            s"Found table source '${source.getClass.getCanonicalName}' is 
not applicable " +
    -              s"in a batch environment.")
    -        }
    +        val source = TableFactoryService
    --- End diff --
    
    1.
    This case looks kind of ugly. Shouldn't it be unify to sth like:
    ```
    TableFactoryService.find(classOf[TableSourceFactory], javaMap)
      .createTableSource(javaMap, 
environment.isInstanceOf[StreamTableEnvironment])
    ```
    ?
    If you really want, you can on top of that define methods:
    ```
    def createBatchTableSource(val javaMap) = createTableSource(javaMap, 
isStream = false)
    
    def createStreamTableSource(val javaMap) = createTableSource(javaMap, 
isStream = true)
    ```
    but I would skip them.
    
    Factories could choose to support or not streaming/batching tables. Same 
applies to similar code in `ExecutionContext.java`.
    
    2. Ditto: Is there any significant value of keeping both 
`BatchTableSink(Source)Factory` and `StreamTableSink(Source)Factory`? 
    
    
    both 1. and 2 adds quite a lot of boilerplate code for definition and for 
caller.


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