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Alexandre Normand commented on AVRO-1268:
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I thought I'd post a quick update. I have a working patch for at least the
basic use case that got me interested in making this change (declaring a type
with {{@java-class("java.math.BigDecimal")}} in a schema and have that used as
the type in the generated sources). I added tests for that for the compiler
portion and I've also confirmed it works in a real end-to-end use case but I
have yet to add tests for the reader/writer changes.
I also won't be submitting the patch until AVRO-1267 is committed because I
rely on that change to have the {{@java-class}} be allowed in an IDL file.
> Add java-class support for stringable types to SpecificData
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> Key: AVRO-1268
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1268
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.7.4
> Reporter: Alexandre Normand
> Assignee: Alexandre Normand
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.7.5
>
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> Stringable types are java classes that can be serialized through strings
> (which require a single string constructor and a valid toString()
> implementation). ReflectData currently has support from stringable types but
> it would be desirable to get this feature with SpecificData.
> The work involves changes to the SpecificCompiler (depends on {{@java-class}}
> support in AVRO-1267) to generate the specific sources with the proper java
> type as well as moving the ReflectDatumReader and ReflectDatumWriter to read
> the java-class property.
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