Matching Catalog Properties with Java #4140

Feature Request / Improvement

I was doing some analysis of the accepted configuration properties in Python vs. Java. We have a number of them in Python that don't fully match with Java (list below, generated by Claude)

Before we start generating PRs for any of these, does the community find any value in making these properties match Java (where appropriate)?

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Catalogs

• DynamoDB: accept dynamodb.table-name (Python reads table-name)
• Hive: accept iceberg.hive.lock-check-min-wait-ms / iceberg.hive.lock-check-max-wait-ms (Python reads lock-check-min-wait-time / lock-check-max-wait-time in seconds)
• Hive: accept hive.metastore.table.owner / hive.metastore.database.owner (Python reads the table property owner)
• SQL: accept jdbc.init-catalog-tables / jdbc.schema-version (Python reads init_catalog_tables / schema_version)
• Glue / DynamoDB: fall back to client.region and client.* credentials (Python reads glue.* / dynamodb.*)

REST

• Accept rest.auth.type (none / basic / oauth2 / sigv4 / google) as well as the nested auth.type config (Python uses noop, Java uses none)
• Accept rest.auth.basic.username / rest.auth.basic.password
• Accept rest.auth.type=sigv4 as well as rest.sigv4-enabled=true
• Accept rest.remote-signing.endpoint and s3.remote-signing-enabled (Python reads s3.signer.uri / s3.signer.endpoint / s3.signer)

S3

• Accept s3.sse.type / s3.sse.key (Python reads s3.server-side-encryption / s3.sse-kms-key-id)
• Accept client.assume-role.arn / client.assume-role.session-name (Python reads s3.role-arn, client.role-arn, *.role-session-name)
• Accept s3.path-style-access (inverse of Python's s3.force-virtual-addressing)
• Accept http-client.proxy-endpoint (Python reads s3.proxy-uri)
• Accept http-client.*.connection-timeout-ms (Python reads s3.connect-timeout in seconds)

ADLS / GCS

• ADLS: accept adls.auth.shared-key.account.name / adls.auth.shared-key.account.key (Python reads adls.account-name / adls.account-key)
• ADLS: accept adls.connection-string.<account> per account (Python reads only a single adls.connection-string)
• GCS: accept gcs.user-project (closest Python equivalent: gcs.requester-pays)