C: avro_schema_from_json ignores length parameter
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Key: AVRO-980
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-980
Project: Avro
Issue Type: Bug
Components: c
Affects Versions: 1.6.1
Environment: Linux x86_64 (Ubuntu 11.10)
Avro 1.6.1
GCC 4.6.1
cmake 2.8.5
Reporter: Michael Cooper
Priority: Minor
The function avro_schema_from_json() takes in a const char* and a length
parameter, but it appears that the length parameter is ignored.
We have a project where the schema is a binary resource compiled into the
executable, and is not guaranteed to have a null terminator at the end.
This did not appear to be an issue because the function had a length parameter.
The other day, It kept throwing errors about characters that were not in the
file at all.
Suspecting it was running off the end of the file, I had a look at the Avro-C
code and found that even though the function takes in a length parameter, it
does not use it and expects a null terminator.
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