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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-380:
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+1 to the patch.
> we may be able to have a Decoder.isEof() function, to avoid the exception mess
Should we file an issue for this? It's come up in a few contexts already as an
awkward point in the API and would be nice to fix.
> Avro Container File format change: add block size to block descriptor
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>
> Key: AVRO-380
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-380
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: doc, java, spec
> Affects Versions: 1.3.0
> Reporter: Scott Carey
> Fix For: 1.3.0
>
> Attachments: AVRO-380.patch, AVRO-380.patch
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> The new file format in AVRO-160 limits a few use cases that I have found to
> be important.
> A block currently contains a count of the number of records, the block data,
> and a sync marker.
> This change would add the block size, in bytes, along side the number of
> records.
> This allows efficient access to a block's data without the need to decode the
> data into individual Datums, which is useful for various use cases.
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