That makes sense. "Parsing Canonical Form" talks only about the schema used
in unmarshalling the payload and it does not involve projection and schema
resolution with compatibility can not be represented with a fingerprint.
Thanks,
Satish.
On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 12:14 AM, Doug Cutting wrote:
>
When reading data, two schemas are used: a schema with the same
fingerprint as used to write the data, typically the actual schema
used to write, and the schema you'd like to project to. Default
values are only used from the latter schema.
Matching fingerprints indicate binary compatibility. Sch
https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.8.1/spec.html#Parsing+Canonical+Form+for+Schemas
> Parsing Canonical Form is a transformation of a writer's schema that
let's us define what it means for two schemas to be "the same" for the
purpose of reading data written agains the schema. It is called Parsing
Canon
