[GitHub] [iceberg] rdblue commented on issue #7979: Pyiceberg StaticTable use the last metadata json URL when the full path is not provided

["rdblue (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>]

rdblue commented on issue #7979:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/issues/7979#issuecomment-1620797933

   I think the current behavior of `StaticTable` is what we want to encourage. If you want to find the "latest" using some file-level operation then that's up to you. But a static table should always be given a fully qualified location for the metadata file. We don't want to confuse people or introduce incorrect behavior by guessing which metadata file is correct.
   
   That said, we could possibly have a method to "recover" table metadata by guessing. That way you could get the same result, but it is clear that you're doing something that is dangerous.
   
   ```python
   io = ArrowFileIO(**config)
   metadata_location = recover_metadata("s3://bucket/path/to/table", io)
   table = StaticTable.from_metadata(metadata_location, config)
   ```


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