Spot on! Thank you Tim

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Tim Perkins <[email protected]> wrote:

> In the V1 schema, I think the default for the orientation array should be
> null (without the quotes), not the string "null".
>
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Vinicius Carvalho <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi there, I'm using Avro 1.8.0, and I'm not sure why one of my
>> compatibility tests is failing.
>>
>> I have two schemas:
>>
>> V1:
>>
>> {
>>   "namespace" : "io.igx.android",
>>   "type" : "record",
>>   "name" : "Sensor",
>>   "fields" : [
>>     {"name":"id","type":"string"},
>>     {"name":"temperature", "type":"float"},
>>     {"name":"acceleration", "type":"float","default":0.0},
>>     {"name":"velocity","type":"float","default":0.0},
>>     {"name":"accelerometer","type":[
>>       "null",{
>>         "type":"array",
>>         "items":"float"
>>       }
>>     ]},
>>     {"name":"magneticField","type":[
>>       "null",{
>>         "type":"array",
>>         "items":"float"
>>       }
>>     ]},
>>     {"name":"orientation","type":[
>>       "null",{
>>         "type":"array",
>>         "items":"float"
>>       }
>>     ],"default":"null"}
>>
>>   ]
>>
>> }
>>
>> V2:
>> {
>>   "namespace" : "io.igx.android",
>>   "type" : "record",
>>   "name" : "Sensor",
>>   "fields" : [
>>     {"name":"id","type":"string"},
>>     {"name":"temperature", "type":"float", "default":0.0},
>>     {"name":"acceleration", "type":"float","default":0.0},
>>     {"name":"velocity","type":"float","default":0.0},
>>     {"name":"accelerometer","type":[
>>       "null",{
>>         "type":"array",
>>         "items":"float"
>>       }
>>     ]},
>>     {"name":"magneticField","type":[
>>       "null",{
>>         "type":"array",
>>         "items":"float"
>>       }
>>     ]}
>>
>>   ]
>>
>> }
>>
>> As you can see the only difference between those two is that one of the
>> arrays is removed from V2, and I've added a default value to a property on
>> V2.
>>
>> If I run:
>>
>> SchemaCompatibility.checkReaderWriterCompatibility(load("schemas/sensor_v2.avsc"),load("schemas/sensor_v1.avsc")).getType()
>>
>> It prints out that data written in v2 should be able to be read by v1,
>> which seems logical
>>
>> But when I try to deserialize data from v2 using v1 reader I get an error:
>>
>> Sensor v1Fromv2 = deserialize(v2Bytes,v1.getSchema(),v2.getSchema());
>>
>> private <T> T deserialize(byte[] bytes, Schema reader, Schema writer)
>> throws Exception{
>> DatumReader datumReader = new SpecificDatumReader<>(writer,reader);
>> Decoder decoder = DecoderFactory.get().binaryDecoder(bytes,null);
>> return (T) datumReader.read(null,decoder);
>> }
>> org.apache.avro.AvroTypeException: Non-null default value for null type:
>> "null"
>>
>> Not sure why is the deserialization not working if the compatibility
>> check passes
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>
>
>
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