Github user omalley commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/23#issuecomment-214806455
1. You're right that you can't actually pass null in to value. *smile*
2. I made the accessors public.
3. I added getters and setters that take the field name.
4. The input format doesn't need to have a struct as the root type. Look at
TestOrcOutputFormat.testLongRoot for an example.
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