Difference between parquet-mr implementation and parquet-format documentation
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Documentation at https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/src/thrift/parquet.thrift
```
struct ColumnChunk {
/** File where column data is stored. If not set, assumed to be same file as
* metadata. This path is relative to the current file.
**/
1: optional string file_path
/** Byte offset in file_path to the ColumnMetaData **/
2: required i64 file_offset
...
```
and https://github.com/apache/parquet-format
```
4-byte magic number "PAR1"
...
```
suggests that ColumnChunk data should be followed by ColumnChunkMetaData.
However it looks like parquet-mr doesn't write ColumnMetaData after Columns at all and populates ColumnChunk.file_offset with an offset of the first data page:
from **ParquetMetadataConverter.java:153**:
```Java
for (ColumnChunkMetaData columnMetaData : columns) {
ColumnChunk columnChunk = new ColumnChunk(columnMetaData.getFirstDataPageOffset()); // verify this is the right offset
columnChunk.file_path = block.getPath(); // they are in the same file for now
```
Is it a bug in parquet-mr or in the documentation?
**Reporter**: [Konstantin Shaposhnikov](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=k.shaposhnikov@gmail.com) / @kostya-sh
#### PRs and other links:
- [parquet-format PR #56](https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/pull/56)
**Note**: *This issue was originally created as [PARQUET-291](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-291). Please see the [migration documentation](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2502) for further details.*
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