We also previously discussed dropping support for Ruby 1.8, as it is EOL. I created a patch that removes some of the hacks needed to support string encodings in Ruby 1.8 and 1.9+ simultaneously: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1559
Willem On Aug 4, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > This introduces a minor incompatibility, so needs to go into 1.8.0, not 1.7.8. > > Perhaps we should identify other changes that also introduce minor > incompatibilities and push out a 1.8.0 release soon? I don't want to > open the gates to major incompatibilities, but a few whose > incompatibilities that are high value and are relatively easy to > diagnose might be reasonable. > > Other obvious candidates might be: > - AVRO-1334 (update java dependencies) > - AVRO-1550 (update protobuf dependency) > - AVRO-1514 (update perl dependencies) > > What do others think? > > Doug > > On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Sean Busbey (JIRA) <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> [ >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-997?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel >> ] >> >> Sean Busbey updated AVRO-997: >> ----------------------------- >> >> Status: Patch Available (was: In Progress) >> >>> Union of enum and null cannot be serialized >>> ------------------------------------------- >>> >>> Key: AVRO-997 >>> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-997 >>> Project: Avro >>> Issue Type: Bug >>> Affects Versions: 1.5.1 >>> Reporter: Aaron Kimball >>> Assignee: Sean Busbey >>> Fix For: 1.8.0 >>> >>> Attachments: AVRO-997.patch, AVRO-997.patch, AVRO-997.patch, >>> AVRO-997.permissive-generic-api.patch >>> >>> >>> I have a schema like: >>> {code} >>> [ >>> { >>> "type": "enum", >>> "name": "Gender", >>> "symbols": ["M", "F"] >>> }, >>> { >>> "type" : "record", >>> "name" : "Foo", >>> "fields" : [ >>> { "type" : ["Gender", "null"], "name" : "gender" }, >>> ... >>> ] >>> } >>> ] >>> {code} >>> I build a record like {{Foo foo = new Foo(); foo.gender = Gender.M;}} >>> When I go to serialize this, I get: >>> {code}Not in union >>> [{"type":"enum","name":"Gender","symbols":["M","F"]},"null"]: M >>> at >>> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData.resolveUnion(GenericData.java:482) >>> at >>> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:70) >>> at >>> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.writeRecord(GenericDatumWriter.java:104) >>> at >>> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:65) >>> at >>> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:57) >>> {code} >> >> >> >> -- >> This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA >> (v6.2#6252)
