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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-637:
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Philip> Since record.stuff is still typed GenericArray [ ... ]

I talked to Philip, and I think he was using a a version of Avro w/o this 
patch.  With this patch, generated code uses List<T>.

> GenericArray should implement Collection
> ----------------------------------------
>
>                 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
>
>         Attachments: AVRO-637-fix.patch, AVRO-637.patch, AVRO-637.patch, 
> AVRO-637.patch
>
>
> 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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