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Tim Roberts edited comment on AVRO-2359 at 3/28/19 3:06 PM:
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I've opened an early PR (see Issue Links) for on-going review. The work is not
complete but I'd appreciate early feedback in order to determine if there are
things that I've missed or overlooked.
I believe that I've covered the 'core' of the changes needed to support logical
types in C#, but all of the logical types outlined in the current specification
need implementations (I currently only have "date").
was (Author: timjroberts):
I've opened an early PR (see Issue Links) for on-going review. The work is not
complete but I'd appreciate early feedback in order to determine if there are
things that I've missed or overlooked.
I believe that I've covered the 'core' of the changes needed to support logical
types in C#, and the logical types outlined in the current specification need
implementations.
> Support Logical Types in C#
> ---------------------------
>
> Key: AVRO-2359
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2359
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: csharp
> Reporter: Tim Roberts
> Priority: Critical
>
> By not supporting Logical Types, the C# Avro implementation is severely
> limited in terms of its interoperability in heterogeneous environments. While
> the implementation will safely ignore logical type declarations in processed
> schemas; at runtime the semantics of a "date" for example, will be lost when
> receiving an Avro payload that was encoded by the Java platform using the
> same schema. The C# implementation will never be able to retrieve the date
> value from the encoded int.
> I propose that the C# Avro implementation be extended to support the Logical
> Types as defined by the current specification. I have also explored the
> lang/csharp codebase and believe that I could produce a PR to support this.
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