On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Christophe Taton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need my server to handle records with fields that can be "freely" extended > by users, without requiring a recompile and restart of the server. > The server itself does not need to know how to handle the content of this > extensible field. > > One way to achieve this is to have a bytes field whose content is managed > externally, but this is very ineffective in many ways. > Is there a another way to do this with Avro?
Does this have to use Avro? For schema-less (or 'open document') style, there are more natural choices like JSON. -+ Tatu +-
