On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Jeff Hammerbacher wrote:
When reading data from an Avro schema, you can specify a subset of the schema as the "expected" schema and only those fields will be unpacked. I don't know the exact details of how this works, but I have requested documentation: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-235. Perhaps you could vote up that issue?
Thanks for the reference. A vote has been submitted, or as I was told they say in Chicago “Vote early, vote often.” ;) Regards, -- Steinar Knutsen <[email protected]> Yahoo! Technologies Norway AS
