Explanation on limitations of the Flink Table API

Posted by Simone Robutti on
URL: http://deprecated-apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.369.s1.nabble.com/Explanation-on-limitations-of-the-Flink-Table-API-tp6299.html

Hello,

I would like to know if it's possible to create a Flink Table from an arbitrary CSV (or any other form of tabular data) without doing type safe parsing with expliciteky type classes/POJOs. 

To my knowledge this is not possible but I would like to know if I'm missing something. My requirement is to be able to read a CSV file and manipulate it reading the field names from the file and inferring data types. 

Thanks,

Simone