def describe()

in pyiceberg/cli/console.py [0:0]

• 23 lines of code
• 12 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def describe(ctx: Context, entity: Literal["name", "namespace", "table"], identifier: str) -> None:
    """Describe a namespace or a table."""
    catalog, output = _catalog_and_output(ctx)
    identifier_tuple = Catalog.identifier_to_tuple(identifier)

    is_namespace = False
    if entity in {"namespace", "any"} and len(identifier_tuple) > 0:
        try:
            namespace_properties = catalog.load_namespace_properties(identifier_tuple)
            output.describe_properties(namespace_properties)
            is_namespace = True
        except NoSuchNamespaceError as exc:
            if entity != "any" or len(identifier_tuple) == 1:  # type: ignore
                raise exc

    is_table = False
    if entity in {"table", "any"} and len(identifier_tuple) > 1:
        try:
            catalog_table = catalog.load_table(identifier)
            output.describe_table(catalog_table)
            is_table = True
        except NoSuchTableError as exc:
            if entity != "any":
                raise exc

    if is_namespace is False and is_table is False:
        raise NoSuchTableError(f"Table or namespace does not exist: {identifier}")