Great, thanks for confirming!
On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 10:43 AM Bridger Howell <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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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