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liviu commented on AVRO-2088:
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Hi [~zi],
But when I read the avro files through Hive (using hive external table), in
both cases the corresponding datatype in Hive is "decimal" and data displayed
correctly in Hive
So, with same avro schema, Hive is able to deserialize both values ("\u00018"
and "3.12") to "3.12"
If this a datastage bug, then also hive serve is not compliant?
> Decimal logicalType values serialized in hexidecimal vs decimal
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: AVRO-2088
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2088
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: liviu
>
> We use this schema for AVRO file:
> {code:java}
> "name":"col1",
> "type":["null",
> {
> "type":"bytes",
> "logicalType":"decimal",
> "precision":19,
> "scale":2
> }
> ]
> {code}
> - if we save data in avro using sqoop or hive (external table), the values
> are saved in hexadecimal format (ex. for 3.12 value is:
> {color:#d04437}*{"col1":{"bytes":"\u00018"}}*{color}
> - if we save the data in that avro file using datastage , the values are
> saved in decimal format (ex. for 3.12 the saved value is:
> {color:#d04437}*{"col1":{"bytes":"3.12"}}*{color}
> The questions are:
> 1). why there is this differences, in one case the data is serialised using
> hexidecimal and the other case using decimal?
> 2). are these differences caused by Avro serialization encoding used (for one
> case is used binary encoding, for the other case is used json encoding)?
> 3). how can we control how the values are serialized (ex. we want to have
> them as "3.12" instead of "\u00018")
> Thanks,
> Liviu
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