schema defaults not reflected in generated objects (1.3.2)

[Bill de hOra]

Hi,

I.m wondering if I'm missing an incantation for 'compile 
schema/protocol' in Avro tools to handle defaults. Given this schema,

[[[
{
    "name": "avro.Message",
    "type": "record",
    "fields": [
        {
            "name": "foo",
            "type": "string",
            "default":"quux"
        },
        {
            "name": "bar",
            "type": "string"
        }
    ]

}
]]]

and running it through 'avro-tools-1.3.2.jar compile schema', I get this 
object

[[[
package avro;

@SuppressWarnings("all")
public class Message extends org.apache.avro.specific.SpecificRecordBase 
implements org.apache.avro.specific.SpecificRecord {
  public static final org.apache.avro.Schema SCHEMA$ = 
org.apache.avro.Schema.parse("{\"type\":\"record\",\"name\":\"Message\",\"namespace\":\"avro\",\"fields\":[{\"name\":\"foo\",\"type\":\"string\",\"default\":\"quux\"},{\"name\":\"bar\",\"type\":\"string\"}]}");
  public org.apache.avro.util.Utf8 foo = new Utf8("quux");
  public org.apache.avro.util.Utf8 bar;
  public org.apache.avro.Schema getSchema() { return SCHEMA$; }
  public java.lang.Object get(int field$) {
    switch (field$) {
    case 0: return foo;
    case 1: return bar;
    default: throw new org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException("Bad index");
    }
  }
  @SuppressWarnings(value="unchecked")
  public void put(int field$, java.lang.Object value$) {
    switch (field$) {
    case 0: foo = (org.apache.avro.util.Utf8)value$; break;
    case 1: bar = (org.apache.avro.util.Utf8)value$; break;
    default: throw new org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException("Bad index");
    }
  }
}
]]]

Should this line,

[[[
  public org.apache.avro.util.Utf8 foo;
]]]

be,

[[[
  public org.apache.avro.util.Utf8 foo
    = new org.apache.avro.util.Utf8("quux");
]]]

?

Fwiw, changing the object's 'foo' field above to have the default stops 
the IPC server from barfing with an NPE (@ 
org.apache.avro.io.BinaryEncoder.writeString(BinaryEncoder.java:133)) 
when a client creates a message object only sets 'bar', and then sends 
the Message to the server via .

Bill