Swaranga Sarma created AVRO-3778:
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             Summary: Ability to perform semantic equality check for two schemas
                 Key: AVRO-3778
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3778
             Project: Apache Avro
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Swaranga Sarma


I would like to check if two schemas are equivalent. For instance:

{{{"type":"record","name":"Person","fields":[\{"name":"name","type":"string"},\{"name":"age","type":"int"}]}}}

{{and}}

{{{"type":"record","name":"Person","fields":[\{"name":"age","type":"int"},\{"name":"name","type":"string"}]}}}

can be considered semantically equivalent since the record has the same set of 
fields only just reordered in the declaration.

If I do {{schema1.equals(schema2)}} for the above, the Avro Java library will 
say false. Would it be reasonable to add an "equivalence" method to detect such 
cases?



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