On 05/24/2012 10:28 AM, Mark Hayes wrote:
The stored/shared schema must either have these string type properties, or not. If it does have them, this impacts the string type for all clients reading from the database. So they would have to all agree on the string type, or dynamically determine it.
No, there are two schemas involved in reading, the writer's and the reader's. The reader's schema can determine what string representation is used. This is the case with reflect and specific, which resolve the schema used when writing against the schema of the class that's being used to represent things when reading. So you don't need to worry about reflect or specific, since they supply their own schema that has the string representation they expect.
So you only need to worry about different string representations if you're using the generic representation and do not specify a distinct reader's schema that you expect to see things as, or if you use some other kind of datum reader (e.g., one you've written yourself) that subclasses GenericDatumReader, doesn't override readString(), and you don't pass an expected, reader's schema.
Doug
