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Artur Kalimullin resolved AVRO-3160.
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Resolution: Implemented
> 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
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> 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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