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Doug Cutting updated AVRO-617:
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Status: Patch Available (was: Open)
Assignee: Doug Cutting
Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
> Catch mismatched default values
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> Key: AVRO-617
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-617
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.3.3
> Reporter: John Kristian
> Assignee: Doug Cutting
> Fix For: 1.4.0
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> Attachments: AVRO-617.patch
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> Please signal an error when a field's default value isn't permitted; that is
> when it doesn't match the field type. In particular, when the type is a
> union, please signal an error if the default isn't a permitted value of the
> first schema in the union.
> For example, these field declarations are erroneous:
> {"name":"f1", "type":["null", "int"], "default": 3}
> {"name":"f2", "type":["int", "null"], "default": null}
> In the current Java implementation, schema resolution using these schemata
> will result in f1=null (not 3) and f2=0 (not null). This quiet choice of an
> unintended value is apt to cause trouble that's difficult to diagnose.
> I propose that schema parsing signal an error when attempting to parse such
> an erroneous schema. Another option is for schema resolution to signal an
> error when the reader's schema is erroneous. Schema parsing is better, I
> think, since it will help catch mistakes earlier, when they're cheaper to
> correct. It wouldn't hurt for both schema parsing and resolution to check.
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