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Scott Carey commented on AVRO-1105:
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I did a little bit of research on Scala macros. As of Scala 2.10 (nearing
release), macros cannot create named types or methods, but they can implement
or override methods defined in the source or create anonymous types.
Until there are type macros they cannot be used to fully replace code
generation. However, they can be used to optimize / implement an API defined
in advance, such as the "Dynamic" use cases. They also do not yet interact
with annotations deeply, which would be very useful for some "Code first" use
cases -- think the equivalent of Java reflection on annotations at compile time
rather than runtime, so that a macro can be triggered to generate code
declaratively by the presence of an annotation.
> Scala API for Avro
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> Key: AVRO-1105
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1105
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Reporter: Christophe Taton
> Attachments: avro-scala.patch
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> Umbrella issue.
> Goal is to provide Scala friendly APIs for Avro records and protocols (RPCs).
> Related project: http://code.google.com/p/avro-scala-compiler-plugin/ looks
> dead (no change since Sep 2010).
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