Feature Request / Improvement

Currently Spark's Register Table Procedure requires a full, direct path to a specific metadata file as input to register a table in a catalog.

This can be improved by allowing a metadata folder path as input, where the procedure automatically identifies and uses the latest metadata.json file within that directory to register the table, making the process more user-friendly.

This behavior is already implemented in Presto Iceberg (PR / Implementation]), and adding the same support in Spark would simplify table registration.

Query engine

Spark

Willingness to contribute

• I can contribute this improvement/feature independently
• I would be willing to contribute this improvement/feature with guidance from the Iceberg community
• I cannot contribute this improvement/feature at this time