Is this supported by the python avro library? It doesn't seem to be.
On 25 April 2018 at 17:02, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > To preserve type information, Avro's json encoding tags union values with > their type. > > https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html#json_encoding > > If you wish to avoid this tagging, then you may use toString() on Avro > data. This will generate valid Json, although some type information may be > lost in the case of unions. > > For example, a union of a string and an enum cannot always be losslessly > converted to and from Json without tagging. Nor can unions of ints and > longs or unions of records and maps. Avro's type model is more complex > than Json's. However if your schemas do not contain any unions that are > ambiguous in Json then you can safely use toString(). > > Doug > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 6:35 AM, amrishsintu <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to convert a POJO which is set with data to JSON in java. >> While converting I get data as >> "lastName": { >> "string": "XYZ" >> } >> This happens when we use the following snippet of the schema. >> "name": "lastName", >> "type": ["string", "null"], >> >> But it works fine when we use below schema >> "name": "lastName", >> "type": ["string", "null"], >> And produces result as :- lastName": "XYZ" >> >> But we need to make the schema such that it should work properly even if >> lastName comes as null. >> >> Please help us so that we can resolve the union issue of [“string”:”null”] >> >> Thanks, >> Amrish >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: http://apache-avro.679487.n3.nabble.com/Avro-Users-f679479.h >> tml >> > > -- Marcelo Valle http://mvalle.com - @mvallebr
