Zhihong Zhang created AVRO-1073:
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Summary: JSON binary encoding doesn't work
Key: AVRO-1073
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1073
Project: Avro
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: java
Affects Versions: 1.6.3
Environment: uname -a
Darwin zmac 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011;
root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
java -version
java version "1.6.0_29"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_29-b11-402-10M3527)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.4-b02-402, mixed mode)
Reporter: Zhihong Zhang
The JSON encoder doesn't encode binary data (bytes or ByteBuffer) properly. It
treats the data as Latin-1 and encode it as text. But there is a bug in text
encoding of non-Roman characters so the binary encoding doesn't work at all.
The binary should be encoded into ASCII (Base64 or 85) before it's encoded in
JSON. The text encoding of binary data is very inefficient even it works. For
example, the 0 is encoded as "\\u0000" in JSON (7 bytes).
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