On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > Yes, you're right, it's only use of GenericRecord that is impacted. Sorry to confuse the issue. Thanks for your help! --mark
