twalthr commented on a change in pull request #18573:
URL: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/18573#discussion_r800761109



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flink-table/flink-table-api-java/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/table/api/PlanReference.java
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+
+package org.apache.flink.table.api;
+
+import org.apache.flink.annotation.Experimental;
+
+import javax.annotation.Nullable;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.net.URL;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.util.Optional;
+
+/**
+ * Pointer to a persisted plan. You can load the content of this reference 
into a {@link
+ * CompiledPlan} using {@link TableEnvironment#loadPlan(PlanReference)} or you 
can directly execute
+ * it with {@link TableEnvironment#executePlan(PlanReference)}.
+ */
+@Experimental
+public final class PlanReference {
+
+    private final @Nullable File file;
+    private final @Nullable String content;
+
+    private PlanReference(@Nullable File file, @Nullable String content) {
+        this.file = file;
+        this.content = content;
+    }
+
+    /** @see #fromFile(File) */
+    public static PlanReference fromFile(String path) {
+        return fromFile(Paths.get(path).toFile());
+    }
+
+    /** @see #fromFile(File) */
+    public static PlanReference fromFile(Path path) {
+        return fromFile(path.toFile());
+    }
+
+    /** Create a reference starting from a file path. */
+    public static PlanReference fromFile(File file) {
+        return new PlanReference(file, null);
+    }
+
+    /** Create a reference starting from a JSON string. */
+    public static PlanReference fromJsonString(String jsonString) {
+        return new PlanReference(null, jsonString);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Create a reference from a file in the classpath, using {@code
+     * Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()} as {@link ClassLoader}.
+     *
+     * @throws TableException if the classpath resource cannot be found
+     */
+    public static PlanReference fromClasspath(String classpathFilePath) {
+        return fromClasspath(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader(), 
classpathFilePath);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Create a reference from a file in the classpath.
+     *
+     * @throws TableException if the classpath resource cannot be found
+     */
+    public static PlanReference fromClasspath(ClassLoader classLoader, String 
classpathFilePath)
+            throws TableException {
+        URL url = classLoader.getResource(classpathFilePath);

Review comment:
       Isn't this somehow already loading a file? It somehow does more than a 
reference should do. Ideally, it would be great to have a symmetric operation. 
Write into resources and read from resources. This is what we need in our tests 
and I'm pretty sure our end-users would also like to have this functionality.




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