Artur Kalimullin created AVRO-3160:
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Summary: Decimal logical type for strings
Key: AVRO-3160
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3160
Project: Apache Avro
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: java
Reporter: Artur Kalimullin
Currently in avro there is just one way to represent BigDecimal: using bytes
type with decimal logical type.
Unfortunately, it's not really convenient to use in non-java environments (we
currently have services in java and PHP that are communicating using avro).
As an alternative, string could be used to represent decimal number without
loosing precision and that's how we are doing it now. I propose to add logical
type decimal to the type string to be able to use BigDecimal directly without
converting it on client side.
I could create a PR for that but wanted to know your opinion first about it,
would you consider merging it? (I guess that's a question to [~rskraba])
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