That sounds like something that should work. Can you submit a bug report, ideally with a complete test case? Thanks!

Doug

On 08/02/2010 04:28 PM, Markus Weimer wrote:
Hi,

I added the following line to a schema, recreated the static java classes
for it and compiled my code:

{"name": "bias", "type":"double", "default":"0.0"}

When I now try to read a file written before the change, I get an error:

Exception in thread "main" java.io.EOFException
         at
org.apache.avro.io.BinaryDecoder.readDouble(BinaryDecoder.java:154)
         at
org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:82)
         at
org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.readArray(GenericDatumReader.java
:273)
         at
org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:74)
         at
org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.readRecord(GenericDatumReader.jav
a:154)
         at
org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:72)
         at
org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:61)


I assumed that it would just return 0.0 for the fields not present in the
file. Is this a bug on my end?

Thanks,

Markus

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