On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Amihay Zer-Kavod amih...@gmail.com wrote:
Bottom line, I would go with Flex approach and retire the Specific approach
entirely.
I filed an issue in Jira for this.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1468
Doug
You'd like the compile-time type-checking of specific, but the
run-time flexibility of generic, right? Here's a way we might achieve
this.
Given the following schemas:
{type:enum, name:Color, symbols:[RED, GREEN, BLUE]}
{type:record, name:Shape, fields:[
{name:xPosition, type:int},
Hi,
We are using Avro heavily for schema definition of all of the events sent
through our distributed system.
The system is a multi service, java based, SaaS system, where the services
upgraded a lot and in no particular order.
We are using Enums in some events data and from time to time a new
