Re: Picking up default value for a union?

[Jonathan Coveney]

Please note: {"name":"hey", "type":"record",
"fields":[{"name":"a","type":["null","string"],"default":"null"}]} also
doesn't work


2013/4/9 Jonathan Coveney <jcove...@gmail.com>

> I have the following schema: {"name":"hey", "type":"record",
> "fields":[{"name":"a","type":["null","string"],"default":null}]}
>
> I am trying to deserialize the following against this schema using Java
> and the GenericDatumReader: {}
>
> I get the following error:
> Caused by: org.apache.avro.AvroTypeException: Expected start-union. Got
> END_OBJECT
>     at org.apache.avro.io.JsonDecoder.error(JsonDecoder.java:697)
>     at org.apache.avro.io.JsonDecoder.readIndex(JsonDecoder.java:441)
>     at
> org.apache.avro.io.ResolvingDecoder.doAction(ResolvingDecoder.java:229)
>     at org.apache.avro.io.parsing.Parser.advance(Parser.java:88)
>     at
> org.apache.avro.io.ResolvingDecoder.readIndex(ResolvingDecoder.java:206)
>     at
> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:152)
>     at
> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.readRecord(GenericDatumReader.java:177)
>     at
> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:148)
>     at
> org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:139)
>     at com.spotify.hadoop.JsonTester.main(JsonTester.java:40)
>
> I'm not seeing any immediate issues online around this...is this expected?
> I'm reading it in as such:
>
> Schema avroSchema = new Schema.Parser().parse(schemaLine);
> GenericDatumReader<Object> reader = new
> GenericDatumReader<Object>(avroSchema);
> Object datum = reader.read(null,
> DecoderFactory.get().jsonDecoder(avroSchema, dataLine));
>
> I'm going to see what's up and why it isn't picking up the default, but
> imagined you guys might know what's up?
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
>