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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-1063:
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I'd consider it compatible if the gem update also added the new dependencies.
I don't know enough about gem to say whether this is the case. I know that in
order to build & test this I had to manually install multi-json. But maybe gem
dependencies aren't automatic at build time but are at install time.
> Ruby client should use multi_json rather than being locked down to yajl
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> Key: AVRO-1063
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1063
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: ruby
> Reporter: Paul Dlug
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.8.0
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> Attachments: AVRO-1063.diff
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> The avro ruby client uses yajl for JSON serialization which is just one of
> many suitable JSON implementations for ruby. The multi_json gem provides a
> wrapper for JSON serialization selecting the fastest library available (Oj is
> now even faster than Yajl) and falling back to a pure ruby implementation
> bundled with multi_json. Requiring yajl also precludes the ruby gem from
> being used under jruby since it requires a C extension.
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