Jens Rabe created HDFS-7378: ------------------------------- Summary: There should be a method to quickly test if a file is a SequenceFile or if a stream contains SequenceFile data Key: HDFS-7378 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-7378 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: New Feature Reporter: Jens Rabe Priority: Trivial
Currently, to check whether a file is a SequenceFile or a stream contains data in SequenceFile format, one either has to check the message of the thrown exception when opening a file with SequenceFile.Reader, or has to check the first four bytes by him/herself. A utility method like SequenceFile.isSequenceFile would be very handy here. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)