Hi Lee, On 17 Jul 2014, at 15:03, Lee Hambley <[email protected]> wrote: > First of all, there are some problems with the trunk of the Ruby gem,
A few issues have been fixed in the Avro 1.7.7 release candidate, which will hopefully be out soon: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/avro-dev/201407.mbox/%3CCALEq1Z_Ew2UCt4PPHnY0L-drxyaVbyn0h%2BH%2BLZOLGqZpmz2hHA%40mail.gmail.com%3E > I would gladly contribute, but I suppose (perhaps someone could confirm) that > the correct place is the dev mailing list, where I can send unified diffs The best place is the issue tracker: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO but the dev list is good for staying on top of what's happening. > it's only about a typo (fixed) in a Gem dependency name That sounds like https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1459 which is fixed in 1.7.7. > and incorrect syntax for the error constants. Not sure what you mean with this. Can you file an issue if there isn't already one? > Finally to my problem, I believe the problem is that contrary to the > canonical Ruby client example. I'm not abolutely clear on the distinction > between a schema and a protocol (I'd imagine the former is related purely to > serialization, and the protocol is for the RPC functionality) That distinction is correct. > I wonder if someone might be able to shed some light on why (almost > regardless of what I try) I can't seem to escape messages in this irk: I've not used Flume so I don't know, but perhaps this old mailing list message is relevant? http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/avro-user/201306.mbox/%3CCAA5kp3q62W_0Ynx8bToPC=tzo+umvtzrqputsjwekceqvat...@mail.gmail.com%3E Martin
