JingsongLi commented on a change in pull request #18088: URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/18088#discussion_r769442993
########## File path: flink-table/flink-table-common/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/table/factories/FactoryUtil.java ########## @@ -620,10 +620,16 @@ public static String getFormatPrefix( Class<T> factoryClass, DynamicTableFactory.Context context) { final String connectorOption = context.getCatalogTable().getOptions().get(CONNECTOR.key()); if (connectorOption == null) { - throw new ValidationException( - String.format( - "Table options do not contain an option key '%s' for discovering a connector.", - CONNECTOR.key())); + ManagedTableFactory factory = Review comment: I prefer the empty string to other ids because the empty string itself is a special symbol that is often mixed up with "none". -- 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. To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@flink.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org