Marcel Silberhorn created AVRO-1803:
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Summary: nullable fields and it's default value
Key: AVRO-1803
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1803
Project: Avro
Issue Type: Bug
Components: build
Affects Versions: 1.8.0, 1.7.7
Reporter: Marcel Silberhorn
Priority: Minor
as described in
https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html
{quote}h6. Unions
Unions, as mentioned above, are represented using JSON arrays. For example,
{{\["null", "string"\]}} declares a schema which may be either a null or string.
(Note that when a default value is specified for a record field whose type is a
union, the type of the default value must match the +first+ element of the
union. Thus, for unions containing "null", the "null" is usually listed first,
since the default value of such unions is typically null.){quote}
and the given example for Handshake with
{code}
{"name": "clientProtocol", "type": ["null", "string"]},
{code}
or even the "tweet.hashtags" example from
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31864450
as seen in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9417732 you have to explicit
define the {{"default": null}} for the "nullable union field", else you get
{{Field clientProtocol type:UNION pos:0 not set and has no default value}}
so either there is a bug in the documentation or in the code ,)
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