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Alexander Hasha commented on AVRO-1286:
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Has anyone thought any more about this recently? I'm looking at this issue for
my own purposes. As far as I can tell so far, the calls to `seek` are not
inherently necessary to parsing the data stream. There is one seek to
determine the file length, but that looks like a convenience method for
determining if the end of the file has been reached. (You can tell when that
happens on a stream fairly easily.) You do need to seek backwards by
`SYNC_SIZE`, but it seems like this could be accomplished by buffering a whole
number of blocks in memory, not necessarily the whole file.
I'd like to give this a shot, but am worried I'm failing to understand an
important detail.
> Python script avro cat should be able to read from stdin
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> Key: AVRO-1286
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1286
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: python
> Reporter: Uri Laserson
> Priority: Minor
>
> Currently, you have to specify a target file on the command line. But it
> would be nice to be able to stream data through avro cat.
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