diff --git a/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/transform/IdentityTransformer.java b/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/transform/IdentityTransformer.java
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-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you 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
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.apache.hudi.utilities.transform;
-
-import org.apache.hudi.common.util.TypedProperties;
-
-import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
-import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
-import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
-import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession;
-
-/**
- * Identity transformer.
- */
-public class IdentityTransformer implements Transformer {
-
-  @Override
-  public Dataset<Row> apply(JavaSparkContext jsc, SparkSession sparkSession, Dataset<Row> rowDataset,
-      TypedProperties properties) {
-    return rowDataset;
-  }
-}