Greg Hale created AVRO-2287:
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Summary: Ambiguous documentation around JSON encoding and names
Key: AVRO-2287
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2287
Project: Apache Avro
Issue Type: Bug
Components: doc
Reporter: Greg Hale
{noformat}
otherwise it is encoded as a JSON object with one name/value pair whose name is
the type's name and whose value is the recursively encoded value. For Avro's
named types (record, fixed or enum) the user-specified name is used, for other
types the type name is used.{noformat}
This quote from the
[documentation|http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html#json_encoding]
([source|https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/c011d76436a1c11c614a133ae06abbc19baf2436/doc/src/content/xdocs/spec.xml#L574])
doesn't make it clear which names are allowed to be used in the encoded JSON.
For instance, if we are decoding a union value in JSON using its type name as a
tag, do we need to use the type's _fullname_ (some.namespace.Foo), or can we
use the unqualified name, Foo? Does the answer change if Foo does not have an
explicit namespace in the schema? What should happen if the union's schema
includes two types that differ only in namespace (namespace1.Foo vs.
namespace2.Foo )?
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