Hi Harsh, Yes, it's possible. But, in my case, I have to follow a custom built serialization and hence, I get a serialized object and I have to store and return it in the same state. So, if I just use a TFile.Writer, I will write all the <K,V> pairs as it is and using TFile.Reader I can read them as it is.
But, the problem is the data is very huge and I want the retrieval time to be very lower. Hence, I thought, I would go for the named Meta Blocks approach, where in I can maintain a map of Key Bounds (as the TFiles in my case are sorted) and hence I can reduce the search scope. I wont be knowing, what kind of objects I will be dealing with. All I am sure is that they follow the custom serialization and they have equals() method implemented. Hence, if I take a TFile.Reader.Scanner, I can scan the entries. Is there a similar apporach with DataInputStream, where in I can scan the entries instead of bytes. Thanks Dayakar
