Corey Fritz created AVRO-2982:
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Summary: Provide a null-safe alternative to DateAsLongEncoding
Key: AVRO-2982
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2982
Project: Apache Avro
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: java
Affects Versions: 1.10.0
Reporter: Corey Fritz
We ran into an issue today using {{DateAsLongEncoding}} on a {{java.util.Date}}
field that could be null. Null values result in a {{NullPointerException}}
during serialization while attempting to do the encoding to an Avro {{long}}.
This was easily overcome by implementing our own {{DateAsNullableLongEncoding}}
that translates a {{java.util.Date}} field to an Avro union type: {{["null",
"long"]}}. I'd like to contribute that solution back to this project.
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