We could define the length of a schema as e.g. the length of the parsing canonical form, but I'm just not that convinced there's value here. I'm inclined to close this issue.
On Thu, Nov 7, 2019 at 4:06 AM Ryan Skraba <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think you're correct: as written, the JIRA doesn't have a lot of sense. > > Does the BSON example imply that it would be useful to get the Avro > length of a datum given a schema? > > Roughly: `len(my_schema.from_datum({"hello": "world"})) == 22` ? It > doesn't seem quite right either! > > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 3:36 AM Michael A. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > AVRO-239 asks for an implementation of `__len__` in Python's > > implementation of avro schema. It points to BSON as an example, but I > > don't really understand what the ask is -- what's the purpose of > > having a "length" of a schema, and what would it mean? If schema had a > > consistent length, how could users benefit from it? > > > > Thanks, > > Michael A. Smith
