Hi Doug, Thanks for getting back to me. Of course I read it all through, but its the last part of your comment that has grabbed my attention.
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Doug Cutting <[email protected]> wrote: > > Nesting would certainly work, but may make things harder to maintain > if you reference the type in several different .avsc files. > +1. I realized this 5 mins after I sent the mail you replied to :) > > But, from what I can tell, the Gora > compiler does not currently support this (although it would not be > hard to add). > ... we've not needed it yet. :) However, yeah that doesn't mean it won't happen int he future. > > Avro IDL does support imports, so you might use Avro's IDL compiler to > convert .avdl files to .avsc files that expand nested types, then use > the Gora compiler to compile these. > > This sounds like just the ticket... AND you guys wrote the avro-maven-plugin. How good is that ;) Thanks for feedback. Lewis
