Great. Thanks, Christophe.
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 8:12 AM, Christophe Taton <[email protected] > wrote: > I believe we could eventually make a generic function that can rewrite any > record or record builder, whether specific or generic, into another record > or record builder, whether specific or generic. > > Until this happens, Mika's suggestion is probably the best short-term > solution. > > C. > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Roger Hoover <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Christophe, >> >> Thanks for your reply. When you say that we could write a generic >> conversion function, do you mean we can write one that works for all >> schemas? That would be great! >> >> I'd like an API something like this: >> >> MyCustomRecord record = MyCustomRecord.newBuilder(GenericRecord >> record).build() >> >> Thanks, >> >> Roger >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Christophe Taton < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hi Roger, >>> With the change proposed in >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1443, you would be able to >>> create a specific record using a generic builder API. That means we could >>> write a generic conversion function that creates specific records. >>> Would that work for you? >>> C. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Roger Hoover <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I'm working with an existing API that hands me a GenericRecord. Is >>>> there an easy way I can covert it into a SpecificRecord. Really I want to >>>> get it into the code-generated object. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Roger >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
