My group is considering using Avro and we had some questions that I am hoping someone might have some insight into.
1. Is there a plan to add cycle support to Avro? I saw this ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-695. But it hasn't been worked on since 1/2011. 2. Why does Avro handle cyclical schema's but not cyclical objects? 3. Does anyone know when non-string map keys will be available (i.e. ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-680)? 4. How does Avro handle inheritance in lists? For example: List<BaseClass> storing derived class objects? Thanks for your help. _bernhard
