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Philip Zeyliger commented on AVRO-637:
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BTW, using this is still awkward with the generated code. Since record.stuff
is still typed GenericArray, you can't assign a List to it. I think we'll be
able to change up the templates to make this more pleasant to use on the
"write" side.
> 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
> Fix For: 1.4.0
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> Attachments: AVRO-637-fix.patch, AVRO-637.patch, AVRO-637.patch,
> AVRO-637.patch
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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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