Is there a way to do the

create table A like B

in the Java API? I’m looking for something like:

return TableDescriptor
    .forConnector("filesystem")
    .option("format", "parquet")
    .like(otherTable)

I know this can be done with sql, but I’d like to use the chaining syntax instead of building sql strings

You mean the syntax for a CREATE TABLE AS but then in Table API syntax?

The

create table as

doesn’t have support for things I’d like (partitions & watermarks, mostly), so I’m really more looking for

create table like

, but otherwise, yes

Gotcha

I tried just taking the schema, and setting that as my new table schema, but that includes the metadata columns that don’t make sense in the new context, so that doesn’t really work