[jira] [Created] (CALCITE-7022) Decouple ModelHandler from CalciteConnection

["Stamatis Zampetakis (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Stamatis Zampetakis created CALCITE-7022:
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             Summary: Decouple ModelHandler from CalciteConnection
                 Key: CALCITE-7022
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-7022
             Project: Calcite
          Issue Type: Task
            Reporter: Stamatis Zampetakis
            Assignee: Stamatis Zampetakis


[ModelHandler|https://github.com/apache/calcite/blob/f8fc4ca37e4a60236894c382ce8c8553adc3d43a/core/src/main/java/org/apache/calcite/model/ModelHandler.java] is mainly a parser that can transform YAML/JSON files into SchemaPlus objects.

Currently, the class requires a CalciteConnection in order to be instantiated and the latter is a pretty heavyweight object. The usage of the CalciteConnection makes it rather cumbersome to instantiate and use the parsing capabilities of the ModelHander independently.

In reality though, the handler does not need much from the CalciteConnection and we could easily refactor the handler to not depend on the connection at all.

The motivation for this change is to facilitate the creation of schema objects from YAML/JSON files. A prominent use-case that I have in mind is the use of ModelHandler in unit tests where the models reside in JSON/YAML files.



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