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Werner Daehn updated AVRO-2402:
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Release Note: see https://github.com/rtdi/KafkaAvro (was: Is a side effect
free addition of code. All tests passed.)
Resolution: Abandoned
Status: Resolved (was: Patch Available)
> Generics, provide access to parent object
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> Key: AVRO-2402
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2402
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.10.0
> Reporter: Werner Daehn
> Priority: Critical
> Attachments: AVRO-2402.patch
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> (This is now the second project where I needed a functionality like this in
> Avro. Hence I would greatly appreciate it if you can add that to the 1.10.0
> release. I took extra care to make it simple and without any side effects.)
>
> Imagine you are within the GenericRecord Employee->Addresses. You have all
> fields of the Addresses Schema of course but what if you need to read
> something from the parent, the employee record?
> You would need to remember the entire parent tree, which is fine if you are
> just one level deep but can be cumbersome when the structure is 10 levels
> deep.
> I'd like the GenericData.Record and Array to contain the method
> * getParent()
> as well.
> With that you can easily walk the nested tree of a deeply nested Schema up
> and now down as well.
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