rdblue commented on code in PR #12774:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/12774#discussion_r2254989845


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core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/data/ContentFileWriteBuilder.java:
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+package org.apache.iceberg.data;
+
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.Map;
+import org.apache.iceberg.MetricsConfig;
+import org.apache.iceberg.PartitionSpec;
+import org.apache.iceberg.Schema;
+import org.apache.iceberg.SortOrder;
+import org.apache.iceberg.StructLike;
+import org.apache.iceberg.deletes.EqualityDeleteWriter;
+import org.apache.iceberg.deletes.PositionDeleteWriter;
+import org.apache.iceberg.encryption.EncryptionKeyMetadata;
+import org.apache.iceberg.io.DataWriter;
+
+/**
+ * A generic builder interface for creating specialized file writers in the 
Iceberg ecosystem.
+ *
+ * <p>This builder provides a unified configuration API for generating various 
types of content
+ * writers:
+ *
+ * <ul>
+ *   <li>{@link DataWriter} for creating data files with table records
+ *   <li>{@link EqualityDeleteWriter} for creating files with equality-based 
delete records
+ *   <li>{@link PositionDeleteWriter} for creating files with position-based 
delete records
+ * </ul>
+ *
+ * <p>Each concrete implementation configures the underlying file format 
writer while adding
+ * content-specific metadata and behaviors.
+ *
+ * @param <B> the concrete builder type for method chaining
+ */
+interface ContentFileWriteBuilder<B extends ContentFileWriteBuilder<B>> {

Review Comment:
   I think there is probably a better name than `ContentFileWriteBuilder`. The 
term `ContentFile` is just a generic internal name that we use as a base for 
both `DataFile` and `DeleteFile` and it isn't a well-defined concept in the 
format. Leaking it into exposed APIs like this is not a good use. We are also 
going to be refactoring those classes for v4 metadata.
   
   This interface is also a little strange. it looks like it has all of the 
methods from `WriteBuilder` except for `build`. It adds 4 methods to set 
metadata that get passed into `DataFile` and `DeleteFile` metadata: `spec`, 
`partition`, `key_metadata`, and `sortOrder`. I wonder if this could just be an 
interface with those last 4 that gets added to `DataWriteBuilder` and the 
delete builders instead?
   
   I know that this is trying to share a lot of code, but the 
data/pos-deletes/eq-deletes builders already exist in multiple places and don't 
share code already. So it makes sense to me that those builders could continue 
to be standalone builders that wrap an appender builder from the format. In 
that case, maybe an interface with these methods isn't needed at all.



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