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Philip Zeyliger commented on AVRO-249:
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Using "java.lang.Short" in a name seems suboptimal. Could you just call it
"Short"? It seems like the schemas induced by reflection should ideally be
language-neutral.
It also seems pretty arbitrary that integers, longs, and floats are represented
with zigzag varint encoding, but shorts are always two bytes.
Have you considered using an approach similar to the annotation approach in
AVRO-242 for this? Even for something like longs, you're sometimes going to
want to hint about what encoding to use (fixed vs. varint).
-- Philip
> in reflection, represent Java short as fixed data
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>
> Key: AVRO-249
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-249
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Reporter: Doug Cutting
> Assignee: Doug Cutting
> Fix For: 1.3.0
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> Attachments: AVRO-249.patch
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> Currently the Java reflect API treats shorts as ints. This fails however to
> naturally handle shorts in arrays and other containers. It would be better
> if we used a distinct type for reflected Java short values.
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