John Karp created AVRO-1470:
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Summary: Inconsistent handling of boolean type
Key: AVRO-1470
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1470
Project: Avro
Issue Type: Bug
Components: perl
Reporter: John Karp
The boolean serialization code in BinaryEncoder.pm is:
{{$data ? \0x1 : \0x0}}
meaning anything false to perl, such as 0, '0', '', () and undef are encoded as
zero, and everything else is encoded as one.
However, the code used in Schema.pm to determine which union branch to use, is
attempting to check for boolean-ness with:
{{m{yes|no|y|n|t|f|true|false}i;}}
meaning only those particular strings are considered booleans, however they
will all get encoded as '0' by BinaryEncoder.pm.
I say 'attempts' because its actually matching this regex against the data type
name $type, which in this context will always be 'boolean', instead of of the
value $data.
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