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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:20:37 -0800 (PST)
From: "Runping Qi (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Created: (HADOOP-732) SequenceFile's header should allow to
 store metadata in the form of key/value pairs
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SequenceFile's header should allow to store metadata in the form of key/value pairs 
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                 Key: HADOOP-732
                 URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-732
             Project: Hadoop
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Runping Qi


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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