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Add support for TypedDeltaTable

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
scala, spark

Research direction

Start by reviewing Frameless's existing TypedDataset API and delta.io's DeltaTable API, then determine how a new frameless-delta module would expose typed merge actions. Use the proposed TypedDeltaTable usage as the target shape; done means the module supports strongly typed merge operations over DeltaTable.

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Description

Frameless introduced the TypedDataset on top of Apache Spark's Dataset API. The aim of this ticket is to create a TypedDeltaTable on top of delta.io's DeltaTable API. This would allow to have strongly typed merge actions, something that would look like the following:

val spark: SparkSession = ...
val updates: TypedDataset[U] = ...
val target: TypedDeltaTable[T] = TypedDataTable.unsafeForPath[T](spark, path)

val sq = target
  .merge[U](updates, target('id) === updates('id))
  .whenMatched(target('someSymbol) != updates('anotherSymbol))
  .update(target('someSymbol) := updates('anotherSymbol))
  .execute()

sq.awaitTermination()

This could be included in a new module, called frameless-delta.

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