Blocker Description
It seems like AvroParquetFileSource doesn't properly set the configuration param required to use a user-supplied read schema that differs from the schema in the file.
Deep in the guts of Parquet (InternalParquetReader#initialize()), I found this:
this.recordConverter = readSupport.prepareForRead( configuration, extraMetadata, fileSchema, new ReadSupport.ReadContext(requestedSchema, readSupportMetadata));
Later, in Parquet's AvroReadSupport#prepareForRead(), it appears to ignore the supplied requestedSchema and, instead, looks for the key avro.read.schema in the readSupportMetadata map. This is seriously kookie code in Parquet (i.e. wrong), but because Crunch doesn't supply readSupportMetadata, we can never properly supply a read schema. Boooo hisssss.