A few minor errors in and suggestions for the spec document
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Key: AVRO-85
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-85
Project: Avro
Issue Type: Bug
Reporter: Thiruvalluvan M. G.
There are a few minor errors in the specifications document:
- The 32-bit and 64-bit floating point numbers should mention the exact IEEE
standard (i.e IEEE 754 instead of plain IEEE).
- It'll be clearer if we state that the long value preceding string or bytes
is the number of bytes being encoded.
- In the binary serialization example for unicode string "foo" the length 3
will get encoded as 0x06 not 0x0c.
- We should be more specific about how one serializes float and double,
Unfortunately, the IEEE 754 does not specify byte ordering. At least we can
point to {html} <a
href="http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Double.html#doubleToRawLongBits%28double%29";
/> {html} for details.
- In the resolution section, we should mention how default values for record
fields get used
- There is a sudden mention of "method parameters" in the resolution of
records; the reader won't have a clue what it refers to.
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