Hi Avro Dev, I think there is a little bit of ambiguity in the requirements for the namespace component of a full name in the specification [1]. In particular it isn't clear whether namespaces like: ".namespace" should be considered valid (i.e. a "null" namespace followed a valid name).
It appears the the C++ implementation does not think this is valid [2] but I couldn't find a corresponding check in the Java code base (I'm still familiarizing myself with both). Should ".namespace" be considered valid? Thanks, Micah [1] https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html [2] https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/master/lang/c%2B%2B/impl/Node.cc#L72
