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[jira] Assigned: (HADOOP-732) SequenceFile's header should allow to
store metadata in the form of key/value pairs
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-732?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Runping Qi reassigned HADOOP-732:
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Assignee: Runping Qi (was: Owen O'Malley)
> SequenceFile's header should allow to store metadata in the form of key/value pairs
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> Key: HADOOP-732
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-732
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: io
> Reporter: Runping Qi
> Assigned To: Runping Qi
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> The sequence file currently stores a fixed list of metadata attributes, such as key/value class names,
> compression method, etc. To make sequence file more self descriptable, it should allow to store a list of key/value pairs. One particular attribute of interest is to indicate whether the key/value classes are actually hadoop record classes,
> if so, store the DDls for the records. This way, we may create tools to extract DDl from a sequence file and
> then generate necessary classes. It also make it possible to provide an interpretive version of Hadoop record.
> This way, even in the situation where Hadoop or the application does not have the necessary classes,
> a sequence file of Hadoop records can be read and deserialized "interpretively".
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