[FLINK-11067] Convert TableEnvironments to interfaces

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
• Component/s: Table SQL / API
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Hequn Cheng
• Reporter: Timo Walther
• Created: 04/Dec/18 11:02
• Updated: 01/Oct/19 15:38
• Resolved: 25/Apr/19 07:29

Description

A more detailed description can be found in FLIP-32.

This task includes porting TableEnvironment, StreamTableEnvironment, BatchTableEnvironment to Java interfaces. API-breaking changes should not be necessary anymore as they should have been resolved by sibling issues. Some refactoring and clean up might be necessary.

Issue Links

• is a child of: FLINK-11448 Clean-up and prepare Table API to be uncoupled from table core
• is blocked by: FLINK-10755 Port external catalogs in Table API extension points to flink-table-common
• is blocked by: FLINK-11068 Convert the API classes *Table, *Window to interfaces
• is blocked by: FLINK-11516 Port and move some Descriptor classes to flink-table-common
• is blocked by: FLINK-11532 Remove the deprecation of ExternalCatalogTable.builder()
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8050

Sub-Tasks

• Change package name in blink modules to avoid class conflict: Open