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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-637:
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Yes, List would probably be a better interface to implement.
But what type should we require for data passed in? Should {"type":"array",
"items":"string"} in generated methods & fields be Collection<CharSequence> or
List<CharSequence>? In either case, the runtime will create a
GenericData.Array<Utf8>, but we'd like folks to be able to pass, e.g.,
ArrayDeque<String>, no?
> GenericArray should implement Collection
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> Key: AVRO-637
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-637
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: java
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Assignee: Doug Cutting
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> It would be nice if Avro arrays were better integrated with Java collections.
> The GenericArray interface permits array element reuse, which is awkward
> with java.util.Collection. But if GenericArray implemented Collection and
> the Avro runtime permitted arbitrary Collection implementations to be passed
> for Arrays then it would simplify many applications. The runtime could still
> reuse elements if an array implemented GenericArray, so performance would not
> suffer for applications that, e.g., loop over a data file, reusing instances.
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