Kyle Carter created AVRO-3305:
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Summary: Avro Compiler(s) should only mangle contextual reserved
keyword when used in reserved context
Key: AVRO-3305
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3305
Project: Apache Avro
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: java
Affects Versions: 1.11.0
Reporter: Kyle Carter
In AVRO-3116 it was correctly called out that new reserved keywords had been
added to the Java language in recent versions that could lead to uncompilable
Avro schemas in Java. While the fix developed for that issue does resolve the
issue it treats all keywords identically. Some of the keywords (record, yield,
var) targeted by that change are only keywords when used in particular
contexts, specifically as a type identifier. Nevertheless, the Avro compiler
code treats all keywords the same and will mangle them wherever they show up
(for example in a package name) even if it would have been valid without
mangling (ex: com.example.record). This can be surprising and result in
unnecessary code updates.
I suggest that these contextual keywords only be mangled when used in the
context they are reserved.
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