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Doug Cutting updated AVRO-695:
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Attachment: AVRO-695.patch
Here's a modified version of the patch. It moves all significant changes to
reflect. Since reflect is the only implementation that can generate an
appropriate schema, changes should be confined to there.
The tests need to be updated, as they still assume generic.
> Cycle Reference Support
> -----------------------
>
> Key: AVRO-695
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-695
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: spec
> Affects Versions: 1.7.6
> Reporter: Moustapha Cherri
> Attachments: AVRO-695.patch, PERF_8000_cycles.zip,
> avro-1.4.1-cycle.patch.gz, avro-1.4.1-cycle.patch.gz,
> avro_circular_references.zip, avro_circular_refs6.patch,
> avro_circular_refs7.patch, avro_circular_refs_2014_06_14.zip,
> circular_refs_and_nonstring_map_keys_2014_06_25.zip
>
> Original Estimate: 672h
> Remaining Estimate: 672h
>
> This is a proposed implementation to add cycle reference support to Avro. It
> basically introduce a new type named Cycle. Cycles contains a string
> representing the path to the other reference.
> For example if we have an object of type Message that have a member named
> previous with type Message too. If we have have this hierarchy:
> message
> previous : message2
> message2
> previous : message2
> When serializing the cycle path for "message2.previous" will be "previous".
> The implementation depend on ANTLR to evaluate those cycle at read time to
> resolve them. I used ANTLR 3.2. This dependency is not mandated; I just used
> ANTLR to speed thing up. I kept in this implementation the generated code
> from ANTLR though this should not be the case as this should be generated
> during the build. I only updated the Java code.
> I did not make full unit testing but you can find "avrotest.Main" class that
> can be used a preliminary test.
> Please do not hesitate to contact me for further clarification if this seems
> interresting.
> Best regards,
> Moustapha Cherri
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