Union of enum and null cannot be serialized -------------------------------------------
Key: AVRO-997 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-997 Project: Avro Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 1.5.1 Reporter: Aaron Kimball I have a schema like: {code} [ { "type": "enum", "name": "Gender", "symbols": ["M", "F"] }, { "type" : "record", "name" : "Foo", "fields" : [ { "type" : ["Gender", "null"], "name" : "gender" }, ... ] } ] {code} I build a record like {{Foo foo = new Foo(); foo.gender = Gender.M;}} When I go to serialize this, I get: {code}Not in union [{"type":"enum","name":"Gender","symbols":["M","F"]},"null"]: M at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData.resolveUnion(GenericData.java:482) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:70) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.writeRecord(GenericDatumWriter.java:104) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:65) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumWriter.write(GenericDatumWriter.java:57) {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira