Thanks Doug. I think I'll have some time in the coming weeks to work on it. I guess I'll go ahead and create a new issue so that we can discuss the design.
-James On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > James, > > I don't know of anyone currently working on this. It'd be great to have! > > Doug > > On 06/13/2011 08:37 PM, James Baldassari wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was confused about why the Avro compiler wasn't initializing my > > record's member variables with the default values I specified in my > > IDL/schema, and then I came across this thread which explained the issue: > > > > http://search-hadoop.com/m/iDVTn1JVeSR1 > > > > In the above thread Doug made this comment: > > > > "Factory/builders are probably the best approach at present. Ideally we > > might generate accessor methods, track which fields have been set, and > > then set unset fields to their default values before writing." > > > > That sounds like a good approach, using mutators to track which fields > > have been set. Records could also implement the builder pattern, which > > would make it much more convenient to construct records by chaining > > setter invocations. > > > > It looks like there has been some discussion of this in AVRO-726 and > > AVRO-770, but there hasn't been much activity lately. Is anyone > > actively working on this? If no one has the time, I would be glad to > > work on a patch. > > > > -James > > >
