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Christophe Taton commented on AVRO-1443:
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Without this change, there is no way for an Avro user to set fields generically
through a builder.
There are several use-cases for this.
The one I'm having right now is a library function that populates some record's
fields through its builder.
The callers of the library should ideally be able to use whichever kind of
records they need indifferently.
> SpecificRecord builders should share more functionality with GenericRecord
> builders
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>
> Key: AVRO-1443
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1443
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: java
> Affects Versions: 1.7.5, 1.7.6
> Reporter: Christophe Taton
> Assignee: Christophe Taton
> Fix For: 1.8.0
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> Attachments: AVRO-1443.20140126-182111-0800.diff,
> AVRO-1443.20140202-182611-0800.svndiff, AVRO-1443.20140204-124549-0800.diff
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> Ideally, wherever a generic record builder is expected, one should be able to
> supply a builder for a specific record.
> That could happen by making SpecificRecordBuilderBase (and
> SpecificErrorBuilderBase?) a subclass of GenericRecordBuilder.
> Since SpecificRecordBase implements GenericRecord, it should be possible with
> minimal effort.
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