Record field names

2014-05-19 Thread yael aharon
Hello, Recently, I noticed that the name of generic record fields are very restrictive. Only alphanumeric characters and underscores are allowed. Could someone shed some light on why is this restriction? thanks, Yael

Re: Record field names

2014-05-19 Thread Harsh J
Hi Yael, The field name requirements are defined in the Avro specification: http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html#Names On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 1:15 AM, yael aharon yael.aharo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Recently, I noticed that the name of generic record fields are very restrictive.