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Ryan Blue commented on AVRO-1554:
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I'm working on some code to demonstrate what I've talked about above that works
with both Decimal and UUID types. Basically, I want to make it possible to
register a {{Conversion<T>}} for a logical type, like UUID, in the generic and
reflect object models. Then that is called any time an object passes through
{{read}} (or {{write}} on the write path). Registration will make the
{{Class<T>}} available so it can be looked up based on the class used in the
reflected object. An internal set of logical types and object representations
would need to be added for Specific.
> Avro should have support for common constructs like UUID and Date
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: AVRO-1554
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1554
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.7.6
> Reporter: Sachin Goyal
> Attachments: AVRO-1554.patch, AVRO-1554_2.patch, AVRO-1554_3.patch,
> CustomEncodingUnionBug.zip
>
>
> Consider the following code:
> {code}
> public class AvroExample
> {
> public static void main (String [] args) throws Exception
> {
> ReflectData rdata = ReflectData.AllowNull.get();
> Schema schema = rdata.getSchema(Temp.class);
>
> ReflectDatumWriter<Temp> datumWriter =
> new ReflectDatumWriter (Temp.class, rdata);
> DataFileWriter<Temp> fileWriter =
> new DataFileWriter<Temp> (datumWriter);
> ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
> fileWriter.create(schema, baos);
> fileWriter.append(new Temp());
> fileWriter.close();
> byte[] bytes = baos.toByteArray();
> GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord> datumReader =
> new GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord> ();
> SeekableByteArrayInput avroInputStream =
> new SeekableByteArrayInput(bytes);
> DataFileReader<GenericRecord> fileReader =
> new DataFileReader<GenericRecord>(avroInputStream,
> datumReader);
> schema = fileReader.getSchema();
> GenericRecord record = null;
> record = fileReader.next(record);
> System.out.println (record);
> System.out.println (record.get("id"));
> }
> }
> class Temp
> {
> UUID id = UUID.randomUUID();
> Date date = new Date();
> BigInteger bi = BigInteger.TEN;
> }
> {code}
> Output from this code is:
> {code:javascript}
> {"id": {}, "date": {}, "bi": "10"}
> {code}
> UUID and Date type fields are very common in Java and can be found a lot in
> third-party code as well (where it may be difficult to put annotations).
> So Avro should include a default serialization/deserialization support for
> such fields.
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