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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-872:
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My slight preference would be to leave parse(File[]) out, since I can imagine
many use cases that are slightly different, e.g., 'List<Schema>
parse(List<File>)' or 'Schema parse(File[])' that returns the last schema, etc.
All of these are just a few lines of code that I think is reasonable to leave
to applications. On the other hand, if lots of applications are using the same
few lines of code, then it makes sense to capture it in a utility, but I don't
yet know what the common idioms are here. Meh.
> Allow interdependancies across IDL schema imports
> -------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: AVRO-872
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-872
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Bill Graham
> Assignee: Doug Cutting
> Attachments: AVRO-872.patch, AVRO-872.patch, AVRO-872.patch,
> AVRO-872.patch, AVRO-872_4.patch
>
>
> This currently doesn't work because Player depends on Position, but it should:
> {noformat}
> $ cat position.avsc
> {"type":"enum", "name": "Position", "namespace": "avro.examples.baseball",
> "symbols": ["P", "C", "B1", "B2", "B3", "SS", "LF", "CF", "RF", "DH"]
> }
> $ cat player.avsc
> {"type":"record", "name":"Player", "namespace": "avro.examples.baseball",
> "fields": [
> {"name": "number", "type": "int"},
> {"name": "first_name", "type": "string"},
> {"name": "last_name", "type": "string"},
> {"name": "position", "type": {"type": "array", "items":
> "avro.examples.baseball.Position"} }
> ]
> }
> $ cat baseball.avdl
> @namespace("avro.examples.baseball")
> protocol Baseball {
> import schema "position.avsc";
> import schema "player.avsc";
> }
> $ java -jar avro-tools-1.5.1.jar idl baseball.avdl baseball.avpr
> {noformat}
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