The IDL compiler accepts any Java identifier as a property name, plus dash-separated sequences of Java identifiers. Dashes were added to support things like the java-class property. We could probably extend this to include dots too. If you need this, please file an issue in Jira.
Doug On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Christopher Ng <[email protected]> wrote: > hi all, > > am I right in guessing that you cannot use any old string to as a property > name in the idl? for example, the avro.java.string property that GenericData > itself relies on is not something that > you could specify in the IDL as it's not a valid Identifier?
