- Provides ability to perform hard deletes by writing delete marker records into the source data
- if the record contains a special field _hoodie_delete_marker set to true, deletes are performed
- Add a transformer class, that adds `Op` fiels if not found in input frame
- Add a payload implementation, that issues deletes when Op=D
- Remove Parquet as a top level source type, consolidate with RowSource
- Made delta streamer work without a property file, simply using overridden cli options
- Unit tests for transformer/payload classes
- Add spotless format fixing to project
- One time reformatting for conformity
- Build fails for formatting changes and mvn spotless:apply autofixes them
- Documented principles applied for redesign at packaging/README.md
- No longer depends on incl commons-codec, commons-io, commons-pool, commons-dbcp, commons-lang, commons-logging, avro-mapred
- Introduce new FileIOUtils & added checkstyle rule for illegal import of above
- Parquet, Avro dependencies moved to provided scope to enable being picked up from Hive/Spark/Presto instead
- Pickup jackson jars for Hive sync tool from HIVE_HOME & unbundling jackson everywhere
- Remove hive-jdbc standalone jar from being bundled in Spark/Hive/Utilities bundles
- 6.5x reduced number of classes across bundles
