Forward declarations are indeed usable in 1.9.0, and the code changed by
that PR is present on the 1.9 branch.
I'd guess it just got missed in the release notes (although it is a pretty
significant improvement!).
As a simple test, if I take a file like this:
protocol Test {
record Foo {
Bar myBar;
}
record Bar {
int width;
int height;
}
}
And try to compile it in 1.8.2 (or earlier), I'll get an error like:
"org.apache.avro.compiler.idl.ParseException: Undefined name 'Bar', at line
3, column 13"
But if I compile it with 1.9.0, it passes.
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:00 AM David Carlton <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I was excited to see Avro 1.9.0 released, but the the list of changes in
> https://s.apache.org/avro190 doesn't include
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1723, even though the PR for
> that Jira was merged a couple of years ago (and wasn't in 1.8.2). Does
> anybody know if that's just a bug in the Jira metadata, or if that change
> got pulled out of Avro 1.9.0?
>
> --
> David Carlton
> [email protected]
>
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