Hi, firstly, congrats Doug to Avro, I think it fills a gap between Thrift and GPB, specifically, because I like the fact that it has the GenericRecord! That's great for prototyping...
I have a question however - I'm trying to use Avro with a Key/Value store - i.e. I would like to serialize an avro object into the value column. I'd like to not generate code as my endpoint should actually query a TypeRegistry in order to resolve the Schema - which would work when using the GenericRecord - however that also stores the schema when writing via the GenericDatumWriter (which is a lot of overhead for a K/V store). Therefore, I wanted to use the SpecificDatumWriter - which can't write a GenericRecord (for obvious reasons)... What I am looking for would be something that allows me *not* having to store the schema in the resulting blob but at the same time it shouldn't require code generation... Any clues? Thanks! Florian
