The Reader idea worked fine I guess :) Thanks, Maha
On Mar 22, 2011, at 1:28 AM, Harsh J wrote: > I do not know of an API-side thing that does this, but basically the > first three bytes of a given sequence file would be 'S', 'E', 'Q' > (which is checked), and following that is a version indicator numeral > byte. > > A silly (but working) way to use the libs itself to do this would be > to construct a Reader object for the file and handle an IOException in > case of 'not a sequence file'? > > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:41 PM, maha <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is there a way to check if a file foo is a Hadoop SequenceFile ? >> >> Thanks, >> Maha >> > > > > -- > Harsh J > http://harshj.com
