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Mark Grey commented on AVRO-1582: --------------------------------- We would +1 on this patch as a vital component of JSON based systems. We intend to leverage Avro it this manner in a few systems at Spotify. There seem to be quite a few workarounds in the wild but it would be good to get "natural" json encoding natively supported within alternative encoder/decoders. > Json serialization of nullable fileds and fields with default values > improvement. > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: AVRO-1582 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1582 > Project: Avro > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: java > Affects Versions: 1.8.0 > Reporter: Zoltan Farkas > Attachments: AVRO-1582-PATCH > > > Currently serializing a nullable field of type union like: > "type" : ["null","some type"] > when serialized as JSON results in: > "field":{"some type":"value"} > when it could be: > "field":"value" > Also fields that equal the the default value can be omitted from the > serialized data. This is possible because the reader will have the writer's > schema and can infer the field values. This reduces the size of the json > messages. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)