apache/fury

[Scala] proposol a new capability mode for maintain core data strucutre in the server

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[Background]
For safe maintain core persistence data compatible are the most consider things in server-side.
In many server-side project, only add new field in every new release version and carefully delete existing field is a good practice usually.

Our COMPATIBLE mode are not check for delete field. There are difficult check safty when release new version.

[Advice]
Add a new CompatibleMode only allow add new field and explicitly give a register process allow ignore field. Such as:

case class Foo(a: Int, b: String, c: Long)

val fury = Fury.builder()..withCompatibleMode(CompatibleMode.ALLOW_NEW_FIELD).build()
fury.registerDeletableField("Foo.c") // which means Foo.c bytes data can ignored when doing deserilaize process.

This can give a great help to check new release version are safe on data structure level.