[KUDU-809] Builder API for schemas in client

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Private Beta
• Component/s: api, client
• Target Version/s: Public beta
• Assignee: Todd Lipcon
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 09/Jun/15 15:09
• Updated: 29/Feb/16 09:20
• Resolved: 06/Aug/15 21:22

Description

Currently the API for creating a schema is not evolvable:

  KuduColumnSchema(const std::string &name,
                   DataType type,
                   bool is_nullable = false,
                   const void* default_value = NULL,
                   KuduColumnStorageAttributes attributes = KuduColumnStorageAttributes());

A builder API would be a lot better.

Issue Links

• relates to: KUDU-737 Rejigger Schema APIs to allow key columns not listed first
• relates to: KUDU-946 Switch python client to use SchemaBuilder API, improve python API