[GitHub] [iceberg] ajantha-bhat commented on a diff in pull request #4675: Docs: Document register table support of HiveCatalog

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ajantha-bhat commented on code in PR #4675:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/4675#discussion_r862464804


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docs/api/java-api-quickstart.md:
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@@ -66,6 +66,17 @@ Table table = catalog.createTable(name, schema, spec);
 
 The logs [schema](#create-a-schema) and [partition spec](#create-a-partition-spec) are created below.
 
+HiveCatalog supports registering the table using a metadata location as below:
+
+```java
+import org.apache.iceberg.Table;
+import org.apache.iceberg.catalog.TableIdentifier;
+
+TableIdentifier name = TableIdentifier.of("logging", "logs");
+// register an existing table to this HiveCatalog.
+Table table = catalog.registerTable(name, metadata_file_location);

Review Comment:
   I left it out thinking it is implicit. 
   Updated it now.



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