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Thiruvalluvan M. G. commented on AVRO-533:
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Hi Jeremy,
I could get the code to compile on my machine. I was trying to understand the
code from the bottom. Since the schema and encoding/decoding at the very
bottom, the following comments apply to those parts of the code. Please bear
with me, it'll take a while to go through the whole codebase. Since we wish and
hope that the code will live for several years, a couple of weeks spent in
getting it right should be worth it.
Most of the tests passed on my machine, some failed. One test even crashes
NTest UI.
The class hierarchy of Schema is:
{code}
Schema
ArraySchema
MapSchema
NamedSchema
EnumSchema
FixedSchema
RecordSchema
ErrorSchema
PrimitiveSchema
BooleanSchema
NullSchema
UnionSchema
{code}
It's not clear why only NullSchema and BooleanSchema are specified and the rest
of the primitive schemas are left alone. I think a a more appropriate hierarchy
would be:
{code}
Schema
NamedSchema
EnumSchema
FixedSchema
RecordSchema/ErrorSchema
UnnamedSchema
ArraySchema
MapSchema
PrimitiveSchema
UnionSchema
{code}
Instead of having SchemaType as a string, it'd be better to have it as an enum,
which, unlike string, is close-ended.
Testing appears inadequate. In TestSchema, for example the test only covers
parsing.
In the Encoder and Decoder interfaces, we are accepting the Stream in every
function. Typically, a lot of encoding/decoding happens on the same stream. So
attaching the stream the interface once will be better, the way we do in the
Java implementation.
I see some files have both Windows and Unix line-endings. I don't know where
the problem is. Do you think keeping Windows line-ending throughout will keep
us from these troubles?
Most of the places the tabs are expanded into spaces, which is perfect. But
certain tabs seem to have escaped. We try to avoid hard-tabs.
We can save quite a bit of code if we use parameterized tests. There is attempt
to achieve parameterization in TestSchema. But it leads to some problems, I
think. When tests fail, it becomes hard to find which test has failed.
I tired to capture all the above ideas (regarding the Schema not
encoder/decoder) by refactoring the code. I kept it at
[email protected]:thirumg/Avro.NET.git in the master branch.
Please feel free to pull it and try. I have commented out certain tests and
code in Avrogen because of this refactroing. Please don't mistake me, my
intention was not to arbitrarily change your code. I thought some ideas are
better shown by demonstration rather than pages and pages of text.
Please let me know what you think.
Do you have any suggestion for a code coverage tool? It'll be nice to know how
much coverage we get with our tests.
Thanks
Thiru
> .NET implementation of Avro
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> Key: AVRO-533
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-533
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 1.4.0
> Reporter: Jeff Hammerbacher
> Attachments: AVRO-533.zip, dotnet.patch
>
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