Changing the serialization of schemas to use schema-specified values would be difficult to achieve in a compatible manner. However changing the values used in some programming languages might not be difficult. In Java the ordinal value is not user-specifiable, but in C and C++ it is. So such a schema property might be used by the C++ code generator.
Doug On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 1:35 PM, William McKenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > I did a few searches on Jira and couldn't find anything it, so apologies if > this has been requested previously. > > It seems like it would be useful to allow an explicit value for enumeration > members. I suppose the biggest argument against it would be that might have > to be a breaking change to the schemas, since the current list of values is > just an array of strings, but maybe it could be added as an optional schema > field which would override the implicit sequential numbering. > > // Maybe? > { > "type": "enum", > "name": "Roles", > "symbols": [ "Producer", "Consumer" ] > "values": [ 100, 101 ] > } > > // This is just too ugly > { > "type": "enum", > "name": "Roles", > "symbols": [ "Producer=100", "Consumer=101" ] > } > > // Alternating strings and values? still pretty ugly. > { > "type": "enum", > "name": "Roles", > "symbols": [ "Producer", 100, "Consumer", 101 ] > } > > ~Bill
