On 2016-07-18 17:24, Josh Wills wrote: Hi Josh,
I _believe_ that is a requirement of Avro reflection-based serialization, at least it was at the time we originally implemented the functionality. If that is no longer the case, we can change it.
I quickly wrote a test case to double check that Avro reflect is fine with a private ctor: https://gist.github.com/cykl/bf8936fca0410d0cea61402bf5b1e5f9
This test pass with Avro 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.7.0 & 1.8.0 (never used Avro 1.3 and my test doesn't compile with it so I stopped here).
Please let me know if I missed something, otherwise I will send a patch on Jira.
Clément
