Hey all,
I’ve been using the Ruby Avro implementation and have run into two
issues with schema validation. (I’m using the avro_patches gem to make use of
the SchemaValidator class until it’s available in an actual release.)
1) The validator will cheerfully allow extra fields to be added to the
payload and will not complain. This caused issues when we were using the wrong
local schema and assumed the values were being sent downstream, when instead
they were just being swallowed.
2) The validator does not check that default values match the type of
the field. In our case we had a default value of null but the type of the field
was string. This caused crashes when clients assumed the default matches the
type.
I have patches to fix these two issues. Any concerns with opening PRs
against the Ruby part of the repo? I’d open the same PRs against avro_patches.
Thanks!
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Daniel Orner
Flipp Inc.
(416) 455-8293
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