Add an option for making requested schema case insensitive while reading
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Description
For projects such as hive and spark-sql which use parquet, the schema of the stored tables is always lowercase (because of limitations of hive metastore). It would be great if we can have a configurable option to read data from parquet irrespective of the case of the requested schema , supplied via ReadContext object.
**Reporter**: [Yash Datta](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?name=saucam) / @saucam
**Note**: *This issue was originally created as [PARQUET-304](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-304). Please see the [migration documentation](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-2502) for further details.*
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Research direction
Start by locating the ReadContext object and the parquet schema-reading path, then review how requested field names are matched to stored names. Define the configurable case-insensitive behavior and verify it with tests covering mixed-case requested schemas against lowercase stored schemas.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100