[KUDU-841] Clean up CreateTable API in Java

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Private Beta
• Fix Version/s: 0.6.0
• Component/s: api, client
• Target Version/s: 0.6.0
• Code Review: http://gerrit.cloudera.org:8080/#/c/1346/
• Assignee: Jean-Daniel Cryans
• Reporter: Todd Lipcon
• Created: 01/Jul/15 18:36
• Updated: 26/Feb/16 12:08
• Resolved: 03/Nov/15 22:21

Description

The CreateTable API is a bit unintuitive compared to standard Java style:

• it takes a "builder" as a third argument, but the builder itself isn't actually a builder-style API (it doesn't have a build() function?)
• odd that it has some required arguments, plus a builder argument

I also can't figure out how to specify column encodings or storage properties (compression)