[HIVE-2898] Add nicer helper functions for adding and reading metadata from RCFiles

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 0.9.0
• Component/s: Serializers/Deserializers
• Assignee: Owen O'Malley
• Reporter: Owen O'Malley
• Created: 23/Mar/12 16:23
• Updated: 09/Jan/13 10:23
• Resolved: 28/Mar/12 16:59

Description

Currently, to use the metadata in RCFile, you need to manipulate it using SequenceFile.Metadata. I'd like to add two helper functions that make it more convenient.