gh-yzou commented on code in PR #1488:
URL: https://github.com/apache/polaris/pull/1488#discussion_r2067006226


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plugins/spark/README.md:
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@@ -30,11 +30,63 @@ and depends on iceberg-spark-runtime 1.8.1.
 
 # Build Plugin Jar
 A task createPolarisSparkJar is added to build a jar for the Polaris Spark 
plugin, the jar is named as:
-"polaris-iceberg-<iceberg_version>-spark-runtime-<spark_major_version>_<scala_version>.jar"
+The result jar is located at plugins/spark/v3.5/build/<scala_version>/libs 
after the build.
 
-Building the Polaris project produces client jars for both Scala 2.12 and 
2.13, and CI runs the Spark 
-client tests for both Scala versions as well.
+# Start Spark with Local Polaris Service using built Jar
+Once the jar is built, we can manually test it with Spark and a local Polaris 
service.
 
-The Jar can also be built alone with a specific version using target 
`:polaris-spark-3.5_<scala_version>`. For example:
-- `./gradlew :polaris-spark-3.5_2.12:createPolarisSparkJar` - Build a jar for 
the Polaris Spark plugin with scala version 2.12.
-The result jar is located at plugins/spark/build/<scala_version>/libs after 
the build.
+The following command starts a Polaris server for local testing, it runs on 
localhost:8181 with default
+realm `POLARIS` and root credentials `root:secret`:
+```shell
+./gradlew run
+```
+
+Once the local server is running, the following command can be used to start 
the spark-shell with the built Spark client
+jar, and to use the local Polaris server as a Catalog.
+
+```shell
+bin/spark-shell \
+--jars <path-to-spark-client-jar> \
+--packages org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-aws:3.4.0,io.delta:delta-spark_2.12:3.3.1 \
+--conf 
spark.sql.extensions=org.apache.iceberg.spark.extensions.IcebergSparkSessionExtensions,io.delta.sql.DeltaSparkSessionExtension
 \
+--conf 
spark.sql.catalog.spark_catalog=org.apache.spark.sql.delta.catalog.DeltaCatalog 
\
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.<catalog-name>.warehouse=<catalog-name> \
+--conf 
spark.sql.catalog.<catalog-name>.header.X-Iceberg-Access-Delegation=true \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.<catalog-name>=org.apache.polaris.spark.SparkCatalog \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.<catalog-name>.uri=http://localhost:8181/api/catalog \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.<catalog-name>.credential="root:secret" \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.<catalog-name>.scope='PRINCIPAL_ROLE:ALL' \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.<catalog-name>.token-refresh-enabled=true \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.<catalog-name>.type=rest \
+--conf spark.sql.sources.useV1SourceList=''
+```
+
+Assume the path to the built Spark client jar is
+`/polaris/plugins/spark/v3.5/spark/build/2.12/libs/polaris-iceberg-1.8.1-spark-runtime-3.5_2.12-0.10.0-beta-incubating-SNAPSHOT.jar`
+and the name of the catalog is `polaris`. The cli command will look like 
following:
+
+```shell
+bin/spark-shell \
+--jars 
/polaris/plugins/spark/v3.5/spark/build/2.12/libs/polaris-iceberg-1.8.1-spark-runtime-3.5_2.12-0.10.0-beta-incubating-SNAPSHOT.jar
 \
+--packages org.apache.hadoop:hadoop-aws:3.4.0,io.delta:delta-spark_2.12:3.3.1 \
+--conf 
spark.sql.extensions=org.apache.iceberg.spark.extensions.IcebergSparkSessionExtensions,io.delta.sql.DeltaSparkSessionExtension
 \
+--conf 
spark.sql.catalog.spark_catalog=org.apache.spark.sql.delta.catalog.DeltaCatalog 
\
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.polaris.warehouse=<catalog-name> \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.polaris.header.X-Iceberg-Access-Delegation=true \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.polaris=org.apache.polaris.spark.SparkCatalog \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.polaris.uri=http://localhost:8181/api/catalog \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.polaris.credential="root:secret" \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.polaris.scope='PRINCIPAL_ROLE:ALL' \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.polaris.token-refresh-enabled=true \
+--conf spark.sql.catalog.polaris.type=rest \
+--conf spark.sql.sources.useV1SourceList=''
+```
+
+# Limitations
+The Spark client does have limitations as follows:
+1) Create table as select (CTAS) is not supported for Delta tables.
+2) Dataframe saveAsTable is not supported for Delta tables, which requires 
CTAS support.
+3) Create non-iceberg table without explicit location is not supported.
+4) Rename table for non-iceberg table is not supported.
+5) ALTER TABLE ... SET LOCATION/SET FILEFORMAT/ADD PARTITION is not supported 
for DELTA table.
+6) No specific guarantee is provided for table types that are neither ICEBERG 
or DELTA at this moment.

Review Comment:
   I haven't do detailed testing for other table types like csv yet, so no 
guarantee can be provided for those table types, if user run into problems for 
other table types, that will be a feature request (that is all I want to say 
:). 
   
   ```
   I'm guessing it doesn't support Iceberg-as-generic-tables
   ```
   yes, the client route all iceberg table related requests to the IRC 
endpoints, so they will all be Iceberg Entities.



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