Hi Lewis,
The method *getIndexNamed* is only used for *Union* schemas and gives the
index of the union's type, so 0 for "null" and 1 for "string" in this case.
The *persistent.getSchema()* returns the *Record Schema* in this case and
the get *getField* method on that gets the field. *Fields* however are not
*Schemas* so you have to call the *schema() *method to get that. If you
wanted the index of the "string" union you would call the following:
int unionIndex = persistent.getSchema().getField(fieldName).*schema()*.
getIndexNamed("string");
But this is not what you want, I think, so the following is the best way as
you have discovered:
int fieldIndex = persistent.getSchema().getField(fieldName).pos();
Regards
Rob Turner.
On 27 January 2014 19:39, Lewis John Mcgibbney <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I have the following UNION field
>
> {"name": "url", "type": ["null","string"], "default":null},
>
> Once I've generated the Persistent class, I set a vlue for this field as
> follows
>
> page.setUrl(new Utf8("example.org"));
>
> When however I attempt to get the field position of the URL UNION with
>
> int fieldIndex = persistent.getSchema().getIndexNamed(fieldName);
>
> I am thrown an org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException: Not a union
> {"type":"record","name":"WebPage",... blah blahblah ... "default":null}]}
>
> However if I do
>
> int fieldIndex = persistent.getSchema().getField(fieldName).pos();
>
> This works perfectly fine...
>
> I've looked at this in my debugger for a bit and can't find a solution
> right now. Any ideas please?
> Thank you in advance
> Lewis
>
> --
> *Lewis*
>
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Cheers
Rob.
