reader in hadoop without reader's schema

2011-12-01 Thread Koert Kuipers
I am reading from avro container files in hadoop. I know the container files have a (writers) schema stored in them. My reader specifies it's schema using avro.input.schema job parameter. This way any schema changes are gracefully handled with both schema's present. However, i dont always need all

override avro generic representation

2011-12-01 Thread Koert Kuipers
Is there a way to override the avro generic representation, or perhaps an easy way to create my own? For example, for FIXED i would like Byte[] instead of ByteBuffer, for STRING i would prefer String over CharArray, for arrays i would like to have a List instead of a Collection, etc. Right now i d