John McHugh created AVRO-1366:
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Summary: Avro 1.7.5 specification description of Object Container
Files Metadata is wrong
Key: AVRO-1366
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1366
Project: Avro
Issue Type: Bug
Components: spec
Affects Versions: 1.7.5
Environment: http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html
Reporter: John McHugh
Fix For: 1.7.5
In the documentation, the metadata is described as
"File metadata consists of:
A long indicating the number of metadata key/value pairs.
For each pair, a string key and bytes value."
In fact, the metadata appears to be a map. If this is the case, the
description should be something like.
"File metadata is represented by an Avro map coded as a series of blocks where
each block consists of:
A long indicating the number of metadata map key/value pairs in the block.
For each pair, a string key and bytes value.
A long value of zero following a block indicates that there are no more blocks
in the map."
Attempting to process the metadata using the existing specification results in
an unexplained 0 byte following the last bytes value.
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