Re: clarifications on file format

2010-04-01 Thread Jeff Hammerbacher
The map of metadata key/value pairs begins with a long, then a number of string-key/bytes-value pairs. To be consistent with avro maps, should this be followed by a long of 0? The spec doesn't say explicitly, but if the header is described by an avro schema I would suspect yes. Not sure if

Re: clarifications on file format

2010-03-31 Thread Scott Carey
On Mar 31, 2010, at 5:23 PM, Scott Banachowski wrote: Hi, I'm looking at the spec for the container file, and have 2 questions: The map of metadata key/value pairs begins with a long, then a number of string-key/bytes-value pairs. To be consistent with avro maps, should this be