Hi Guys, Been messing around with the compiler today and got curious about some things.
1) As this thread states, what is the specific difference between our own compiler [1] implementation and the Avro SpecificCompiler [2] we have a choice of using via bin/gora specificcompiler? 2) I was going to suggest that we upgrade to Avro version 1.6.1 (most recently tagged stable), as the project seems to be more matured, there has also been some code refactoring going on. 3) I've attached a link [3] to the current SpecificCompiler class within the recent 1.6.1 release, even this class has increased in lines of code by around 50%, therefore I think there is more functionality to be had from upgrading. The reason I'm asking is that I've been working on GORA-27, however I wonder if it is better to work towards an implementation for Avro, and we could then rely on that implementation rather than writing one solely for Gora which can only be used here? This story, however falls through if there is a strong case for us maintaining our own compiler implementation. What do you guys think? [1] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/gora/trunk/gora-core/src/main/java/org/apache/gora/compiler/GoraCompiler.java?view=markup [2] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/avro/tags/release-1.3.3/lang/java/src/java/org/apache/avro/specific/SpecificCompiler.java?view=markup [3] http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/avro/tags/release-1.6.1/lang/java/compiler/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/compiler/specific/SpecificCompiler.java?view=markup -- *Lewis*
