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Hudson commented on AVRO-1533:
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SUCCESS: Integrated in AvroJava #461 (See
[https://builds.apache.org/job/AvroJava/461/])
AVRO-1533. Java: In schema resolution, permit conversion between bytes and
string. (cutting: rev 1607197)
* /avro/trunk/CHANGES.txt
* /avro/trunk/doc/src/content/xdocs/spec.xml
*
/avro/trunk/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/ResolvingDecoder.java
*
/avro/trunk/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/parsing/ResolvingGrammarGenerator.java
*
/avro/trunk/lang/java/avro/src/test/java/org/apache/avro/io/TestResolvingIO.java
> 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, AVRO-1533.patch
>
>
> 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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