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25 changes: 5 additions & 20 deletions ...s-core/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/core/storage/PolarisStorageConfigurationInfo.java
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import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.Stream;
import java.util.Set;
import org.apache.polaris.core.PolarisCallContext;
import org.apache.polaris.core.admin.model.Catalog;
import org.apache.polaris.core.config.FeatureConfiguration;
import org.apache.polaris.core.entity.CatalogEntity;
import org.apache.polaris.core.entity.PolarisEntity;
import org.apache.polaris.core.entity.PolarisEntityConstants;
import org.apache.polaris.core.entity.table.IcebergTableLikeEntity;
import org.apache.polaris.core.storage.aws.AwsStorageConfigurationInfo;
import org.apache.polaris.core.storage.azure.AzureStorageConfigurationInfo;
import org.apache.polaris.core.storage.gcp.GcpStorageConfigurationInfo;
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entityPathReversed.get(0).getName());

// TODO: figure out the purpose of adding `userSpecifiedWriteLocations`
List<String> locs =
userSpecifiedWriteLocations(entityPathReversed.get(0).getPropertiesAsMap());
Set<String> locations =
StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(
null, entityPathReversed.get(0).getPropertiesAsMap());
return new StorageConfigurationOverride(
configInfo,
ImmutableList.<String>builder()
.addAll(configInfo.getAllowedLocations())
.addAll(locs)
.addAll(locations)
.build());
}
});
}

private static List<String> userSpecifiedWriteLocations(Map<String, String> properties) {
return Optional.ofNullable(properties)
.map(
p ->
Stream.of(
p.get(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY),
p.get(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_METADATA_LOCATION_KEY))
.filter(Objects::nonNull)
.collect(Collectors.toList()))
.orElse(List.of());
}

private static @Nonnull Optional<PolarisEntity> findStorageInfoFromHierarchy(
List<PolarisEntity> entityPath) {
for (int i = entityPath.size() - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
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23 changes: 18 additions & 5 deletions polaris-core/src/main/java/org/apache/polaris/core/storage/StorageLocation.java
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import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

/** An abstraction over a storage location */
/**
* An abstraction over a storage location. This type may be used for a generic string-based
* location, but child classes might be used where behavior specific to a storage provider is
* needed.
*/
public class StorageLocation {
private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(StorageLocation.class);
private static final Pattern SCHEME_PATTERN = Pattern.compile("^(.+?):(.+)");
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private final String location;

/** Create a StorageLocation from a String path */
/** Create a StorageLocation of the appropriate type from a String path */
public static StorageLocation of(String location) {
// TODO implement StorageLocation for all supported file systems and add isValidLocation
if (AzureLocation.isAzureLocation(location)) {
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}

/** If a path doesn't end in `/`, this will add one */
protected final String ensureTrailingSlash(String location) {
protected static String ensureTrailingSlash(String location) {
if (location == null || location.endsWith("/")) {
return location;
} else {
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}

/** If a path doesn't start with `/`, this will add one */
protected final @Nonnull String ensureLeadingSlash(@Nonnull String location) {
protected static @Nonnull String ensureLeadingSlash(@Nonnull String location) {
if (location.startsWith("/")) {
return location;
} else {
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return location.hashCode();
}

/**
* Checks if two StorageLocations represent the same physical location.
*
* <p>Child classes should override this behavior if a check other than basic string-matching
* should be done.
*/
@Override
public boolean equals(Object obj) {
if (obj instanceof StorageLocation) {
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/**
* Returns true if this StorageLocation's location string starts with the other StorageLocation's
* location string
* location string.
*
* <p>Child classes should override this behavior if a check other than basic string-matching
* should be done.
*/
public boolean isChildOf(StorageLocation potentialParent) {
if (this.location == null || potentialParent.location == null) {
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import jakarta.annotation.Nonnull;
import java.net.URI;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import org.apache.iceberg.TableMetadata;
import org.apache.iceberg.view.ViewMetadata;
import org.apache.polaris.core.entity.table.IcebergTableLikeEntity;

public class StorageUtil {
/**
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public static @Nonnull String getBucket(URI uri) {
return uri.getAuthority();
}

/** Given a TableMetadata, extracts the locations where the table's [meta]data might be found. */
public static @Nonnull Set<String> getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(TableMetadata tableMetadata) {
return getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(tableMetadata.location(), tableMetadata.properties());
}

/** Given a baseLocation and entity (table?) properties, extracts the relevant locations */
public static @Nonnull Set<String> getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(
String baseLocation, Map<String, String> properties) {
Set<String> locations = new HashSet<>();
locations.add(baseLocation);
locations.add(properties.get(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY));
locations.add(
properties.get(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_METADATA_LOCATION_KEY));
locations.remove(null);
return removeRedundantLocations(locations);
}

/** Given a ViewMetadata, extracts the locations where the view's [meta]data might be found. */
public static @Nonnull Set<String> getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(ViewMetadata viewMetadata) {
return Set.of(viewMetadata.location());
}

/** Removes "redundant" locations, so {/a/b/, /a/b/c, /a/b/d} will be reduced to just {/a/b/} */
private static @Nonnull Set<String> removeRedundantLocations(Set<String> locationStrings) {
HashSet<String> result = new HashSet<>(locationStrings);
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Since this is a new collection, it can be produced by

locationStrings.stream()
  .filter(Objects::nonNull)
  .map(StorageLocation::of)
  .collect(Collectors.toCollection(HashSet::new));

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That would remove duplicate locations, but not redundant locations like we want to. We'd still need to loop over the collection.

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Yes, but you'd save the exponential instantiation of SotrageLocation objects

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Actually you could safe the inner loop with a sorted collection, if the locations end with a /.

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Oh true, let's try to save the extra StorageLocation calls. Just pushed an update, let me know what you think!

I don't think we need to get too crazy trying to optimize this loop, considering the real number of locations is <=3 in practice and that we loop over them elsewhere when doing the overlap check.

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Not saying it's not possible (in the code here), but there's no IAM for individual paths.

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Ah, yes, that's true -- basically #1801 is needed.

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The main change to the javadocs seems to be comments like Must be overridden by subclasses, but I don't think that's true. In fact it's the opposite -- to date we've only created subclasses where we wish to override, but we could create subclasses where it's not necessary. For example, a LocalStorageLocation.

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True, "must" might be too strong. The implementations may however be very specific to the storage-type - that's what I've been thinking of.

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That's a good point, let me make this explicit in a javadoc


for (String potentialParent : locationStrings) {
StorageLocation potentialParentLocation = StorageLocation.of(potentialParent);
for (String potentialChild : locationStrings) {
if (!potentialParent.equals(potentialChild)) {
StorageLocation potentialChildLocation = StorageLocation.of(potentialChild);
if (potentialChildLocation.isChildOf(potentialParentLocation)) {
result.remove(potentialChild);
}
}
}
}
return result;
}
}
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*/
package org.apache.polaris.core.storage;

import java.util.Map;
import org.apache.polaris.core.entity.table.IcebergTableLikeEntity;
import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.junit.jupiter.params.ParameterizedTest;
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Assertions.assertThat(StorageUtil.getBucket("s3://bucket:8080/path/file.txt"))
.isEqualTo("bucket:8080");
}

@Test
public void getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed() {
Assertions.assertThat(StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(null, Map.of())).isEmpty();
Assertions.assertThat(StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed("", Map.of())).isNotEmpty();
Assertions.assertThat(StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed("/foo/", Map.of()))
.contains("/foo/");
Assertions.assertThat(
StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(
"/foo/",
Map.of(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY, "/foo/")))
.contains("/foo/");
Assertions.assertThat(
StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(
"/foo/",
Map.of(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY, "/bar/")))
.contains("/foo/", "/bar/");
Assertions.assertThat(
StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(
"/foo/",
Map.of(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY, "/foo/bar/")))
.contains("/foo/");
Assertions.assertThat(
StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(
"/foo/bar/",
Map.of(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY, "/foo/")))
.contains("/foo/");
Assertions.assertThat(
StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(
"/foo/bar/",
Map.of(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_METADATA_LOCATION_KEY, "/foo/")))
.contains("/foo/");
Assertions.assertThat(
StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(
"/1/",
Map.of(
IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY, "/2/",
IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_METADATA_LOCATION_KEY, "/3/")))
.contains("/1/", "/2/", "/3/");
}
}
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import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;
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import org.apache.polaris.core.storage.PolarisStorageConfigurationInfo;
import org.apache.polaris.core.storage.PolarisStorageIntegration;
import org.apache.polaris.core.storage.StorageLocation;
import org.apache.polaris.core.storage.StorageUtil;
import org.apache.polaris.core.storage.cache.StorageCredentialCache;
import org.apache.polaris.service.catalog.SupportsNotifications;
import org.apache.polaris.service.catalog.common.LocationUtils;
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}
}

private Set<String> getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(TableMetadata tableMetadata) {
Set<String> locations = new HashSet<>();
locations.add(tableMetadata.location());
if (tableMetadata
.properties()
.containsKey(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY)) {
locations.add(
tableMetadata
.properties()
.get(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY));
}
if (tableMetadata
.properties()
.containsKey(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_METADATA_LOCATION_KEY)) {
locations.add(
tableMetadata
.properties()
.get(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_METADATA_LOCATION_KEY));
}
return locations;
}

private Set<String> getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(ViewMetadata viewMetadata) {
return Set.of(viewMetadata.location());
}

@Override
public boolean dropTable(TableIdentifier tableIdentifier, boolean purge) {
TableOperations ops = newTableOps(tableIdentifier);
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storageCredentialCache,
getCredentialVendor(),
tableIdentifier,
getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(tableMetadata),
StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(tableMetadata),
storageActions,
storageInfo.get());
}
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tableFileIO =
loadFileIOForTableLike(
tableIdentifier,
getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(metadata),
StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(metadata),
resolvedStorageEntity,
new HashMap<>(metadata.properties()),
Set.of(
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.get(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY))) {
// If location is changing then we must validate that the requested location is valid
// for the storage configuration inherited under this entity's path.
Set<String> dataLocations = new HashSet<>();
dataLocations.add(metadata.location());
if (metadata.properties().get(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY)
!= null) {
dataLocations.add(
metadata
.properties()
.get(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY));
}
if (metadata
.properties()
.get(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_METADATA_LOCATION_KEY)
!= null) {
dataLocations.add(
metadata
.properties()
.get(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_METADATA_LOCATION_KEY));
}
Set<String> dataLocations =
StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(metadata.location(), metadata.properties());
validateLocationsForTableLike(tableIdentifier, dataLocations, resolvedStorageEntity);
// also validate that the table location doesn't overlap an existing table
dataLocations.forEach(
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viewFileIO =
loadFileIOForTableLike(
identifier,
getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(metadata),
StorageUtil.getLocationsAllowedToBeAccessed(metadata),
resolvedStorageEntity,
tableProperties,
Set.of(PolarisStorageActions.READ, PolarisStorageActions.WRITE));
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callContext, ioImpl, properties, identifier, locations, storageActions, resolvedPath);
}

private void blockedUserSpecifiedWriteLocation(Map<String, String> properties) {
if (properties != null
&& (properties.containsKey(IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_DATA_LOCATION_KEY)
|| properties.containsKey(
IcebergTableLikeEntity.USER_SPECIFIED_WRITE_METADATA_LOCATION_KEY))) {
throw new ForbiddenException(
"Delegate access to table with user-specified write location is temporarily not supported.");
}
}

private int getMaxMetadataRefreshRetries() {
return callContext
.getRealmConfig()
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