jackye1995 commented on code in PR #6742:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/6742#discussion_r1096434383


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aws/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/aws/glue/GlueCatalog.java:
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@@ -437,6 +439,44 @@ public void renameTable(TableIdentifier from, 
TableIdentifier to) {
     LOG.info("Successfully renamed table from {} to {}", from, to);
   }
 
+  @Override
+  public org.apache.iceberg.Table registerTable(TableIdentifier identifier, 
String metadataFileLocation) {
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(isValidIdentifier(identifier),
+        "Table identifier to register is invalid: " + identifier);
+    Preconditions.checkArgument(metadataFileLocation != null && 
!metadataFileLocation.isEmpty(),
+        "Cannot register an empty metadata file location as a table");
+
+    Map<String, String> tableParameters = ImmutableMap.of(
+        BaseMetastoreTableOperations.TABLE_TYPE_PROP,
+        
BaseMetastoreTableOperations.ICEBERG_TABLE_TYPE_VALUE.toLowerCase(Locale.ENGLISH),
+        BaseMetastoreTableOperations.METADATA_LOCATION_PROP,
+        metadataFileLocation);
+
+    TableInput tableInput = TableInput.builder()
+        .name(IcebergToGlueConverter.getTableName(identifier, 
awsProperties.glueCatalogSkipNameValidation()))
+        .tableType(GlueTableOperations.GLUE_EXTERNAL_TABLE_TYPE)
+        .parameters(tableParameters)
+        .build();
+
+    try {
+      glue.createTable(CreateTableRequest.builder()
+          .databaseName(IcebergToGlueConverter.getDatabaseName(identifier,
+              awsProperties.glueCatalogSkipNameValidation()))
+          .tableInput(tableInput)
+          .build());
+    } catch (software.amazon.awssdk.services.glue.model.AlreadyExistsException 
e) {
+      glue.updateTable(UpdateTableRequest.builder()

Review Comment:
   Similarly, I think we should at least make this a feature flag like 
`glue.register-table.replace-if-exists`. 
   
   We could further argue if we should make this an API feature or not, but 
that is subject to debate. Any thoughts?



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