pvary commented on code in PR #12298:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/12298#discussion_r2001472189


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core/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/io/datafile/ReadBuilder.java:
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+package org.apache.iceberg.io.datafile;
+
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.util.Map;
+import org.apache.iceberg.Schema;
+import org.apache.iceberg.expressions.Expression;
+import org.apache.iceberg.io.CloseableIterable;
+import org.apache.iceberg.mapping.NameMapping;
+
+/**
+ * Builder API for reading Iceberg data files.
+ *
+ * @param <R> type of the reader
+ * @param <F> type of the records which are filtered by {@link DeleteFilter}
+ */
+public interface ReadBuilder<R extends ReadBuilder<R, F>, F> {
+  /**
+   * Restricts the read to the given range: [start, start + length).
+   *
+   * @param newStart the start position for this read
+   * @param newLength the length of the range this read should scan
+   */
+  R split(long newStart, long newLength);
+
+  /** Read only the given columns. */
+  R project(Schema newSchema);
+
+  /**
+   * Sets the reader to case-sensitive when matching column names. Readers 
might decide not to
+   * implement this feature. The default is behavior is case-sensitive.
+   */
+  default R caseInsensitive() {
+    return caseSensitive(false);
+  }
+
+  default R caseSensitive(boolean newCaseSensitive) {
+    // Just ignore case sensitivity if not available
+    return (R) this;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Enables record filtering. Some readers might not be able to do reader 
side filtering. In this
+   * case the reader might decide on returning every row. It is the caller's 
responsibility to apply
+   * the filter again.

Review Comment:
   This is how it is done currently.
   We could enhance this by doing something like `residuals`, but bloom 
filtering will never be exact, and client side filtering will always be needed



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