}

// preprocessDeletionListForMerging preprocesses the deletion list.
// it returns shouldContinue, isDeletionList, noPrefixKey
func preprocessDeletionListForMerging(key string, original map[string]interface{},
	patchVal interface{}, mergeDeletionList bool) (bool, bool, string, error) {
	// If found a parallel list for deletion and we are going to merge the list,
	// overwrite the key to the original key and set flag isDeleteList