Yes. How do I instantiate an instance of GenericData though? It looks like its constructors are protected.
Thanks J On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 1:52 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > There is deepcopy method on genericdata I think > > I used it to create deep copies of the avro data > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 11, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Jeremy Lewi <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > In java, I'd like to make a deep copy of an avro record. > > > > Looking at the code that the avro compiler generates it looks like the > way to do this for records of type GraphNodeData > > would be > > GraphNodeData copy = GraphNodeData.newBuilder(existing_value).build(); > > > > where GraphNodeData is the name of my avro record. > > > > Unfortunately, this generates a compile time error because > > the method GraphNodeData.build is decorated with "@Override" but it > apparently does not override any method. > > Deleting "@Override" makes the code work. Unfortunately, I would have to > do this every time I regenerated my avro classes from the schema. > > > > Am I doing something wrong or should I file a bug? > > > > Thanks > > J >
