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Artur Kalimullin commented on AVRO-3160:
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Thanks, [~rskraba], I decided to check the Stringable and and found following
documentation:
[https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.10.2/api/java/org/apache/avro/reflect/package-summary.html]
I tried following code: \{"type": "string", "java-class":
"java.math.BigDecimal"} and it worked: java classes were compiled with
BigDecimal and in the avro message we have string
> Decimal logical type for strings
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> Key: AVRO-3160
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3160
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: java
> Reporter: Artur Kalimullin
> Priority: Major
>
> 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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