Need to have support for generic Avro objects

[tdunning]

This would be the meaning of the records() type specifier. The schema would come from the
input file and the values would be generic avro objects that would need to be accessed via
string field names.

[cutting]

I think that might "just work" with Avro 1.4.1. If you don't have classes loaded that correspond to the types in an Avro data file, it will use the generic Avro datatypes. I don't know what Java generic plumbing is required in Plume though for the types to work out. Perhaps you can provide some pseudo code that you'd like to be able to write, and I can then try to figure out how that can be done?

[tdunning]

I will do that.