danny0405 commented on a change in pull request #4880:
URL: https://github.com/apache/hudi/pull/4880#discussion_r817297153



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File path: hudi-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/common/model/DeleteKey.java
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@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
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+
+package org.apache.hudi.common.model;
+
+import java.util.Objects;
+
+/**
+ * Delete key is a combination of HoodieKey and ordering value.
+ * The key is used for {@link 
org.apache.hudi.common.table.log.block.HoodieDeleteBlock}
+ * to support per-record deletions. The deletion block is always appended 
after the data block,
+ * we need to keep the ordering val to combine with the data records when 
merging, or the data may
+ * be dropped if there are intermediate deletions for the inputs
+ * (a new INSERT comes after a DELETE in one input batch).
+ */
+public class DeleteKey extends HoodieKey {
+  private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+  /**
+   * For purposes of preCombining.
+   */
+  private Comparable orderingVal;
+
+  private DeleteKey(String recordKey, String partitionPath, Comparable 
orderingVal) {
+    super(recordKey, partitionPath);
+    this.orderingVal = orderingVal;
+  }
+
+  public static DeleteKey create(HoodieKey hoodieKey, Comparable orderingVal) {
+    return create(hoodieKey.getRecordKey(), hoodieKey.getPartitionPath(), 
orderingVal);
+  }
+
+  public static DeleteKey create(String recordKey, String partitionPath) {
+    return create(recordKey, partitionPath, 0);

Review comment:
       From my understanding, we use `0` before to represent the natural order 
just because all the records have same version number, so the later records 
version is always chosen.
   
   Maybe a string flag here is more readable, we can address that in another PR 
though ~




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