Hi, we recently ran into AVRO-2174 in the sense that we were using Python, and had enums with spaces in some symbols. Now have to do an integration with a Java avro system, and have to make some hard choices because Java won't accept our enums.
It would help me make some of these choices if I understood if there is a technical motivation for not allowing enum symbols to be more arbitrary strings. I have read AVRO-1725, but IIUC the decision was made to have the spec follow the Java behavior (introducing this break with other implementations) starting in 1.8.0. So, digging deeper, does the data or encoding need this behavior? I'm thinking along these lines: - Are we expected to only use the enum symbols to refer to other names defined in the schema? - Do spaceless strings lend themselves to a more compact binary encoding?
