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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-1723:
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Adding a public subclass of Schema in org.apache.avro that's not usable by
applications is too confusing.
Rather you might create a schema with a property that identifies it as
unresolved, e.g., the equivalent of:
{code}{"type":"null",
"org.apache.avro.compiler.idl.unresolved.name":"my.full.Name"}{code}
> Add support for forward declarations in avro IDL
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: AVRO-1723
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1723
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.8.0
> Reporter: Zoltan Farkas
>
> Currently Recursive data structures like:
> record SampleNode {
> int count = 0;
> array<SamplePair> samples = [];
> }
> record SamplePair {
> string name;
> SampleNode node;
> }
> It is not possible to declare in IDL,
> however it is possible to declare in avsc (with fix from
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1667 )
> It is actually not complicated to implement, here is some detail on a
> possible implementation:
> https://github.com/zolyfarkas/avro/commit/210c50105717149f3daa39b8d4160b8548b8e363
> This would close a capability gap with google protocol buffers...
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