AVRO-1402 only updated the specification to include Decimal[1]. AVRO-1497 is the ticket for adding an implementation to the java library and it is still open[2].
HTH. [1]: http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.7/spec.html#Decimal [2]: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1497 On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 12:52 PM, Michael Pigott < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I'm sorry, I'm feeling kind of dense at the moment. I just upgraded > to Avro 1.7.7 to hopefully use the new Decimal type ( > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1402 ), however I can't seem > to find it. Which Maven dependency should I use? I tried the following: > > org.apache.avro:avro:1.7.7 > org.apache.avro:avro-tools:1.7.7 > org.apache.avro:avro-ipc:1.7.7 > org.apache.avro:avro-protobuf:1.7.7 > > I also noticed that the last comment on > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1402 is a Hudson build failure > - did the code make it into the build? > > Thanks, > Mike > -- Sean
