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Tom White commented on AVRO-1402:
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> I wonder if we instead should use something like serializers

How about using the existing CustomEncoding class?

{code}
GenericData data = new GenericData();
data.addCustomEncoding(new DecimalEncoding(5, 3));
...
{code}

> Support for DECIMAL primitive type
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-1402
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1402
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: 1.7.5
>            Reporter: Mariano Dominguez
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: Hive
>         Attachments: AVRO-1402.patch
>
>
> Currently, Avro does not seem to support a DECIMAL type or equivalent.
> http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.5/spec.html#schema_primitive
> Adding DECIMAL support would be particularly interesting when converting 
> types from Avro to Hive, since DECIMAL is already a supported data type in 
> Hive (0.11.0).



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