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Henry Fernandes commented on AVRO-3968:
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Thanks [~opwvhk] for your response.
Yes extending @AvroName annotation functionality to also allow to specify the
namespace would work as well based on your description.
The only consideration over here is regarding the point,
{color:#403294}{{@AvroName(value="fieldName", namespace="my.space")}} on a
field would trigger an error: fields have no namespace{color}
{color:#172b4d}From what I understand, the expectation here would be to throw a
runtime exception when users apply this annotation over the field.{color}
{color:#172b4d}Instead if we create a different class level annotation (happy
to go with @AvroTypeName), it would not even allow users to apply this
annotation at field level.{color}
{color:#172b4d}It would be better to give compile time error rather than
runtime error.{color}
> Support for custom @AvroNamespace annotation
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>
> Key: AVRO-3968
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3968
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: Wish
> Reporter: Henry Fernandes
> Priority: Major
>
> Currently there are several java annotations like @AvroSchema, @AvroName,
> @AvroDoc etc that can be used to decorate Java POJO classes which in turn are
> used when generating avro schema with reflection.
> While @AvroName annotation comes handy for overriding the name of fields,
> there is no support for overriding the namespace.
>
> Currently by default the java POJO's package name is used as the namespace.
> This is a bit restrictive as there can be cases where we may want to generate
> the schema with a different namespace.
>
> The ask over here is to provide a @AvroNamespace annotation that can let us
> override the namespace to what we intend to.
>
> Happy to contribute with a PR for the same.
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