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Ryan Blue commented on AVRO-1875:
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[~nocs00], what do you mean that "byte arrays in JSON are encoded in Latin-1
encoding"? There's a [spec for encoding
JSON|https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.8.1/spec.html#schema_record] byte arrays,
which is "Unicode code points 0-255 are mapped to unsigned 8-bit byte values
0-255". Then the entire JSON blob should be encoded [using
UTF-8|https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/master/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/JsonEncoder.java#L84].
I think the JsonEncoder already writes data to spec and changing how byte
arrays are serialized would break readers. There's been talk of a new JSON spec
that behaves more like one would expect. Maybe that's a more appropriate place
to change the byte array encoding to use base 64?
> ability encode/decode byte arrays in Base64
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> Key: AVRO-1875
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1875
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Reporter: Paul Dudenkov
> Fix For: 1.9.0
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> Hi,
> I would like to add ability encode/decode byte arrays in Base64 in classes
> JsonEncoder JsonDecoder.
> For this purpose I will add new constructors and overloaded factory methods.
> Old code will work as before.
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