Spark 3.5: Spark action to compute the partition stats

api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/actions/ActionsProvider.java

@@ -70,4 +70,10 @@ default RewritePositionDeleteFiles rewritePositionDeletes(Table table) {
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
         this.getClass().getName() + " does not implement rewritePositionDeletes");
   }
+
+  /** Instantiates an action to compute partition statistics and register it to table metadata. */
+  default ComputePartitionStats computePartitionStatistics(Table table) {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException(
+        this.getClass().getName() + " does not implement computePartitionStatistics");
+  }
 }

api/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/actions/ComputePartitionStats.java

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
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+ */
+package org.apache.iceberg.actions;
+
+import org.apache.iceberg.PartitionStatisticsFile;
+
+/** An action to compute and register partition stats. */
+public interface ComputePartitionStats
+    extends Action<ComputePartitionStats, ComputePartitionStats.Result> {
+
+  /** The action result that contains a summary of the execution. */
+  interface Result {
+    /**
+     * Returns the output file which is registered to the table metadata, null if the table is
+     * non-partitioned or empty.
+     */
+    PartitionStatisticsFile outputFile();
+  }
+}