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Lu Litao commented on AVRO-3248:
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Sorry, i missied your message, somehow it did't send the notification by email
:P
I checked and ur solution seems to be wrong if we have a union like this
["A", "B"]
where A and B are like this --
// A and B are the same except the name.
let schema_str_1 = r#"{
"name": "A",
"type": "record",
"fields": [
{"name": "field_one", "type": "float"}
]
}"#;
let schema_str_2 = r#"{
"name": "B",
"type": "record",
"fields": [
{"name": "field_one", "type": "float"}
]
}"#;
in this case, the schema found by a value will always be "A"'s schema.
this also applies to A, B being "fixed" type, which seems plausible in reallife
(for example A = {"name": "fieldA", "type": "fixed", "size": 10}, B = {"name":
"fieldB", "type": "fixed", "size": 10})
here is my PR for these scenario . https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/1396
```
to solve that, we can change Value::Union to `(index in the type list, value
it holds)`, Similiar to Value::Enum.
this allows us to get Union's inner_schema for named types
directly, without validating the schema.
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> Rust: Support named types in UnionSchema
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Key: AVRO-3248
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3248
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Lu Litao
> Assignee: Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Time Spent: 20m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> currently there's no support for named type in avro's Union type in rust.
> as stated in this comment of the UnionSchma struct
> {quote}// Used to ensure uniqueness of schema inputs, and provide constant
> time finding of the
> // schema index given a value.
> // **NOTE** that this approach does not work for named types, and will have
> to be modified
> // to support that. A simple solution is to also keep a mapping of the names
> used.
> {quote}
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