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Doug Cutting updated AVRO-1533:
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    Fix Version/s: 1.7.7
           Status: Patch Available  (was: Open)

Does this seem useful to folks?  Should we also support conversion from bytes 
to string, even though that could result in runtime errors due to invalid UTF8?

> permit promotions between string and bytes
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-1533
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1533
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: java
>            Reporter: Doug Cutting
>            Assignee: Doug Cutting
>             Fix For: 1.7.7
>
>         Attachments: AVRO-1533.patch
>
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> Avro strings are a subset of bytes, so promoting from string to bytes is 
> lossless and should be possible.  Promotion from bytes to strings may cause 
> problems, as not all byte strings are valid UTF8, but it also might be useful.



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