Blocking for value output (with API change)
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Key: AVRO-25
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-25
Project: Avro
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: java
Reporter: Raymie Stata
Assignee: Thiruvalluvan M. G.
The Avro specification has provisions for decomposing very large arrays and
maps into "blocks." These provisions allow for streaming implementations that
would allow one to, for example, write the contents of a file out as an Avro
array w/out knowing in advance how many records are in the file.
The current Java implementation of Avro does support this provision. My
colleague Thiru will be attaching a patch which implements blocking. It turns
out that the buffering required to do blocking is non-trivial, so it seem
beneficial to include a standard implementation of blocking as part of the
reference Avro implementation.
This is an early version of the code. We are still working on testing and
performance tuning. But we wanted early feedback.
This patch also includes a new set of classes called ValueInput and
ValueOutput, which are meant to replace ValueReader and ValueWriter. These
classes have largely the same API as ValueReader/Writer, but they include a few
more methods to "bracket" items that appear inside of arrays and maps.
Shortly, we'll be posting a separate patch which implements further subclasses
of ValueInput/Output that do "validation" of input and output against a schema
(and also do automatic schema resolution for readers).
We're implementing these classes separate from ValueInput/Output to allow you
to kick our tires w/out causing too much disruption to your source trees.
Let's validate the basic idea behind these patches first, and then determine
the details of integrating them into the rest of Avro.
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