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Ryan Blue commented on AVRO-1497:
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I prefer to avoid using a ServiceLoader if there is an alternative that doesn't
involve automatic registration. It would be better to configure the data model
for logical types you prefer, like joda vs java-8 dates. That works out well
because we will need to have a method to turn on or off the logical type
handling anyway, so that process can just pass a handler for a type into the
data model code. But if we did want automatic registration, ServiceLoader would
be the way to go at the moment.
> Add LogicalType support to Java
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> Key: AVRO-1497
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1497
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: java
> Reporter: Ryan Blue
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> AVRO-1402 updates the Avro spec to include logical types, which are stored as
> existing types but interpreted as others. The next step is to implement
> LogicalType (in Java) that provides tools to attach a logical type to a
> schema, read a logical type, and validate logical types.
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