Hey -- I have a certain knowledge of Avro, and I'd be willing to help out with some of these enhancements, writing tests and reviewing. I have a *lot* of Avro schemas available for validation!
The FLIP looks pretty good and covers the possible cases pretty rigorously. I wasn't aware of some of the gaps you've pointed out here! How useful do you think the new ENUM_STRING DataType would be outside of the Avro use case? It seems like a good enough addition that would solve the problem here. A small note: I assume the AvroSchemaUtils is meant to be annotated @PublicEvolving as well. All my best, Ryan On Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 4:35 AM Becket Qin <becket....@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I would like to start the discussion about FLIP-158[1] which proposes to > clean up and enhance the Avro support in Flink. More specifically, it > proposes to: > > 1. Make it clear what are the public APIs in flink-avro components. > 2. Fix a few buggy cases in flink-avro > 3. Add more supported Avro use cases out of the box. > > Feedbacks are welcome! > > Thanks > > Jiangjie (Becket) Qin > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-358%3A+flink-avro+enhancement+and+cleanup
