We should probably follow Postel's law and be liberal in what we accept during deserialization. So we might more rigorously check default values when writing even though that's not when they're used. Most schemas that are used when writing are also used for reading.
On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Mark Hayes <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not sure how it can be added to Avro without breaking existing apps. > If ResolvingGrammarDecoder.encode were changed to correct the deficiencies > I mentioned, existing schemas that don't pass the stricter rules would > cause errors in the builder, and errors when applying default values from a > reader schema during deserialization. > > --mark >
