On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > Since release 1.7.4, Avro Java will serialize and deserialize > instances of java.util.Date using the following schema: > > {"type":"string", "java-class":"java.util.Date"}
Oops. I forgot that this was reverted in AVRO-1155. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1155 So I think we're better off specifying a standard schema for datetimes. The existing Jira for this is: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-739 I'll try to create a patch for this soon. Doug
