[PARQUET-731] [CPP] Add API to return metadata size and Skip reading values

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: cpp-1.0.0
• Component/s: parquet-cpp
• Assignee: Deepak Majeti
• Reporter: Deepak Majeti
• Created: 26/Sep/16 15:45
• Updated: 02/Oct/16 18:52
• Resolved: 02/Oct/16 18:52

Description

1) There is no API to return the size of the metadata.
2) SQL allows to skip rows via the "offset" clause. Adding a method to skip reading values in parquet-cpp will be helpful.