Hi, I see that all the java classes in java.util package are completely ignored by Avro. This includes some of the very commonly used classes like: 1) java.util.Date, 2) java.util.UUID, 3) java.util.Currency and 4) java.util.Locale etc.
The code that does that is in ReflectData#getFields(Class<?> recordClass, boolean excludeJava) It is called from ReflectData#getCachedFields(Class<?> recordClass) as getFields(recordClass, true) Thinking aloud, would it be a good idea to have a white-list of classes (like those mentioned above) such that the internals of those classes would be always serialized, thus adding support for these commonly-used types in Avro? Another solution could be to have a custom-encoding for all such classes. Please suggest. Thanks Sachin
