Hey Ron, Sounds like a good discussion to have. Could you open a JIRA?
Thanks, Jeff On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Ron Bodkin <[email protected]>wrote: > Has anyone discussed the possibility of having built-in support for a > date/time stamp data type in Avro? I think it'd be helpful, since dates and > timestamps are often used as keys in processing map/reduce data (and in RPC > systems). It's unpleasant to have to write code that converts longs or > strings into dates or timestamps. Minimally, it would be useful to allow > generating date/time stamps from long timestamps in the client APIs various > language code and to have support for working with Dates in the Java > reflection API. > > I'd like to get feedback from others if they'd also like to see support for > date/time data types in Avro. It seems like a generally useful feature that > would be worth adding with a patch. > > Thanks, > Ron > > Ron Bodkin > CEO > Think Big Analytics > m: +1 (415) 509-2895 > > >
