Re: (Default) values for logical types in human-readable form

2017-10-18 Thread Bridger Howell
> I don't think we can change the behavior of the "default" key. Otherwise, > older readers would use the wrong value. This is true, but the "human-readable default" feature is inherently incompatible with older readers. My hope was that giving an invalid type for the default would cause an error

[jira] [Updated] (AVRO-1827) Handling correctly optional fields when converting Protobuf to Avro

2017-10-18 Thread Doug Cutting (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1827?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Doug Cutting updated AVRO-1827: --- Assignee: Karel Fuka Status: Patch Available (was: Open) > Handling correctly optional fields wh

Re: (Default) values for logical types in human-readable form

2017-10-18 Thread Ryan Blue
I don't think we can change the behavior of the "default" key. Otherwise, older readers would use the wrong value. I suggest that we add an optional key, like "default-as-string", that is used to fill in a missing "default" key if there is a reasonable conversion. On write, the write schema would

[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-1827) Handling correctly optional fields when converting Protobuf to Avro

2017-10-18 Thread Karel Fuka (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1827?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=16209356#comment-16209356 ] Karel Fuka commented on AVRO-1827: -- Hello, we would like to check if there is any plan to

Re: 1.7.8 Release of Apache Avro

2017-10-18 Thread Nandor Kollar
Hi Suraj, Though I'm not a committer, I'd be happy to help you with the release (verification, or anything else you need help with, and I can also do it)! By the way, is there a wiki about the steps required for an Avro release? Thanks, Nandor On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 3:00 AM, Suraj Acharya wrot