geruh commented on PR #14677:
URL: https://github.com/apache/iceberg/pull/14677#issuecomment-3590734096

   Thanks you guys for the feedback!!
   
   The Expressions models have been around long before the REST scan planning 
API, and we've been using that parser for other things like the metrics scan 
report. I think it's definitely possible that folks have been calling or using 
the expression parser without any usage of the rest models. And in all those 
cases, the Java client has only ever written literal booleans for the true and 
false expressions.
   
   With that said, I don't think there's a way we can get out of this without 
breaking some clients. Even if we honor the REST spec by accepting the object 
form and keep writing Boolean literals. In that case, DuckDB will still need to 
handle reading the booleans. And then if we were to flip to writing in the 
object form, we'd break clients that are already relying on the booleans for 
scan report metrics.
   
   So, I'm I'm leaning towards allowing the deserialization of booleans, but 
keep the same behavior of serializing to boolean literals. but yeah, I just 
kind of want to make a point that regardless, we're going to be breaking 
clients here who have been accounting for both scenarios. Let me know what you 
all think.


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