ice: Added support for deleting partitions

examples/scratch/README.md

@@ -50,6 +50,9 @@ ice create-table flowers.iris_no_copy --schema-from-parquet=file://iris.parquet
 local-mc cp iris.parquet local/bucket1/flowers/iris_no_copy/
 ice insert flowers.iris_no_copy --no-copy s3://bucket1/flowers/iris_no_copy/iris.parquet
 
+# delete partition(By default --dry-run=true is enabled to print the list of partitions that will be deleted)
+ice delete nyc.taxis --dry-run=false
+
 # inspect
 ice describe
 

ice/src/main/java/com/altinity/ice/cli/Main.java

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 import com.altinity.ice.cli.internal.cmd.Check;
 import com.altinity.ice.cli.internal.cmd.CreateNamespace;
 import com.altinity.ice.cli.internal.cmd.CreateTable;
+import com.altinity.ice.cli.internal.cmd.Delete;
 import com.altinity.ice.cli.internal.cmd.DeleteNamespace;
 import com.altinity.ice.cli.internal.cmd.DeleteTable;
 import com.altinity.ice.cli.internal.cmd.Describe;
@@ -27,6 +28,7 @@
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.yaml.YAMLFactory;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.Base64;
@@ -426,6 +428,43 @@ void deleteNamespace(
     }
   }
 
+  @CommandLine.Command(name = "delete", description = "Delete data from catalog.")
+  void delete(
+      @CommandLine.Parameters(
+              arity = "1",
+              paramLabel = "<name>",
+              description = "Table name (e.g. ns1.table1)")
+          String name,
+      @CommandLine.Option(
+              names = {"--partition"},
+              description =
+                  "JSON array of partition filters: [{\"name\": \"vendorId\", \"values\": [5, 6]}]. "
+                      + "For timestamp columns, use ISO Datetime format YYYY-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss")
+          String partitionJson,
+      @CommandLine.Option(
+              names = "--dry-run",
+              description = "Log files that would be deleted without actually deleting them",
+              defaultValue = "true")
+          boolean dryRun)
+      throws IOException {
+    try (RESTCatalog catalog = loadCatalog(this.configFile())) {
+      List<PartitionFilter> partitions = new ArrayList<>();
+      if (partitionJson != null && !partitionJson.isEmpty()) {
+        ObjectMapper mapper = newObjectMapper();
+        PartitionFilter[] parts = mapper.readValue(partitionJson, PartitionFilter[].class);
+        partitions = Arrays.asList(parts);
+      }
+      TableIdentifier tableId = TableIdentifier.parse(name);
+
+      Delete.run(catalog, tableId, partitions, dryRun);
+    } catch (URISyntaxException e) {
+      throw new RuntimeException(e);
+    }
+  }
+
+  public record PartitionFilter(
+      @JsonProperty("name") String name, @JsonProperty("values") List<Object> values) {}
+
   private RESTCatalog loadCatalog() throws IOException {
     return loadCatalog(this.configFile());
   }

ice/src/main/java/com/altinity/ice/cli/internal/cmd/Delete.java

@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2025 Altinity Inc and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ */
+package com.altinity.ice.cli.internal.cmd;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.util.ArrayList;
+import java.util.List;
+import org.apache.iceberg.DataFile;
+import org.apache.iceberg.FileScanTask;
+import org.apache.iceberg.RewriteFiles;
+import org.apache.iceberg.Table;
+import org.apache.iceberg.TableScan;
+import org.apache.iceberg.catalog.TableIdentifier;
+import org.apache.iceberg.io.CloseableIterable;
+import org.apache.iceberg.rest.RESTCatalog;
+import org.slf4j.Logger;
+import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
+
+public final class Delete {
+
+  private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Delete.class);
+
+  private Delete() {}
+
+  public static void run(
+      RESTCatalog catalog,
+      TableIdentifier tableId,
+      List<com.altinity.ice.cli.Main.PartitionFilter> partitions,
+      boolean dryRun)
+      throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+
+    Table table = catalog.loadTable(tableId);
+    TableScan scan = table.newScan();
+    if (partitions != null && !partitions.isEmpty()) {
+      org.apache.iceberg.expressions.Expression expr = null;
+      for (com.altinity.ice.cli.Main.PartitionFilter pf : partitions) {
+        org.apache.iceberg.expressions.Expression e = null;
+        for (Object value : pf.values()) {
+          org.apache.iceberg.expressions.Expression valueExpr =
+              org.apache.iceberg.expressions.Expressions.equal(pf.name(), value);
+          e = (e == null) ? valueExpr : org.apache.iceberg.expressions.Expressions.or(e, valueExpr);
+        }
+        expr = (expr == null) ? e : org.apache.iceberg.expressions.Expressions.and(expr, e);
+      }
+      scan = scan.filter(expr);
+    }
+    List<DataFile> filesToDelete = new ArrayList<>();
+
+    try (CloseableIterable<FileScanTask> tasks = scan.planFiles()) {
+      for (FileScanTask task : tasks) {
+        filesToDelete.add(task.file());
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (!filesToDelete.isEmpty()) {
+      if (dryRun) {
+        logger.info("Dry run: The following files would be deleted:");
+        for (DataFile file : filesToDelete) {
+          logger.info("  {}", file.path());
+        }
+      } else {
+        RewriteFiles rewrite = table.newRewrite();
+        for (DataFile deleteFile : filesToDelete) {
+          rewrite.deleteFile(deleteFile);
+        }
+        rewrite.commit();
+        logger.info("Partition(s) deleted.");
+      }
+    } else {
+      logger.info("No files found for the partition(s).");
+    }
+  }
+}