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Reuse hadoop file status and footer in ParquetRecordReader

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
hadoop, java
Domain
data-engineering

Research direction

Start by locating ParquetRecordReader in the core module and review stale PR #1242, which is mentioned as an existing implementation. Run the relevant core reader tests and compare their coverage; done means the reader reuses the Hadoop file status and footer without regressions.

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Description

Type: enhancement
Describe the enhancement requested

This is actually PARQUET-2415
Reuse hadoop file status and footer in ParquetRecordReader moved to a github issue.

That has a stale pr #1242 by @wankunde; I've got claude to rebase it and update to junit5/assertj

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Core

Dominant language
Java
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