Thanks for the quick response and fix! Andrew
>________________________________ >From: Doug Cutting <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 8:36 PM >Subject: Re: ThriftDatumReader and null values (Tag 1.6.0-rc0) > >This looks like a bug. > >I have a proposed fix in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-948. > >Doug > >On 10/28/2011 12:59 AM, Andrew Kenworthy wrote: >> Hallo, >> >> I'm trying out the latest Avro tag (1.6.0-rc0) as the new >> ThriftDatumReader/Writer classes look really interesting (we currently >> receive thrift files as input for our hadoop jobs and would like to >> convert them to avro format as early as possible, and then use avro >> (de-)serialisation throughout our job stack). >> >> I have tried out the test case (TestThrift) and it works fine until I >> comment out the line: >> >> test.setStringField("foo"); >> >> at which point the test fails as null values don't seem to be allowed. >> Is this intentional or is there something basic that I have not >> understood? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Andrew Kenworthy > > >
