[Question] Why the java sdk tablesImpl doesn't have create table API

[zymap]

Description

I want to use the WorkspaceClient to use the table api to communicate with the unity catalog, but I found there is no create table api in the databricks sdk.
So my question is, how to create the table using the sdk? is there any special reason?

[thomaseadiealloy]

I'm in the same boat. From the javadocs it mentions the permissions required to create a table but the method doesn't actually exist.

I'd also expect there to be a CreateTableRequest class, but there is not.

As a workaround it may be necessary to just run a SQL statement:

workspaceClient.statementExecution().executeStatement("CREATE TABLE <catalog>.<schema>.<table>", warehouseId);

It looks like this is a limitation of the Databricks API, it also confusingly doesn't have a method to create tables.

[rahil-c]

Thanks @zymap and @thomaseadiealloy for sharing this, I also am running into this as well. @thomaseadiealloy will try your workaround, unless you ended up finding a better solution.

@mgyucht @nfx @tanmay-db Just wanted to confirm is this is the only path for developers? I see that there is a create request for CreateMetastore, CreateCatalog, and CreateSchema so curious as to why there is not one for Table?