This Issue is to solve similar problems to wha I had in BEAM-12883.
Currently there are 2 Coders for Metadata: default one: org.apache.beam.sdk.io.fs.MetadataCoder and enhanced one org.apache.beam.sdk.io.fs.MetadataCoderV2, the last can also decode-encode lastModifiedMillis and it is done in a new coder in order to support backward compatibility.
This will be hard to maintain, we will need to create a new coder for any new field that will be added to Metadata.
So, as suggested in this comment: #15510, we need to have some new generic coder : MetadataDynamicCoder.
MetadataDynamicCoder can decode/encode any new fields added to Metadata by sending getter, setter and coder.
Imported from Jira BEAM-13640. Original Jira may contain additional context.
Reported by: brachi_packter.