Ok. Good to know. Thanks for the pointers. I will try to upgrade then if I want to keep my enums useful.
Bertrand On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > That is a bug. It's been fixed. Twice! > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-713 > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1201 > > Doug > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Bertrand Dechoux <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am using to 1.4.0 version of avro (not by choice) and tried a > toString() > > on a GenericRecord containing somewhere a GenericEnumSymbol. My problem > is > > that this instance is not represented as a string in JSON but by its name > > itself. As a consequence it does not produce a valid json as far as I > know. > > Is it the excepted behaviour? Is that because I am using an old version > of > > avro? Or is it that the toString() representation is not meant to be the > > same as the JSON representation? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Bertrand >
