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Sachin Goyal commented on AVRO-680: ----------------------------------- Please remove avro_circular_refs6.patch and the comment above this one. They were meant for AVRO-695. non_string_map_keys7.patch is the latest patch to be seen for this issue. > Allow for non-string keys > ------------------------- > > Key: AVRO-680 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-680 > Project: Avro > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 1.7.6, 1.7.7 > Reporter: Jeremy Hanna > Attachments: AVRO-680.patch, avro_circular_refs6.patch, > isMap_Call_Hierarchy.png, non_string_map_keys.zip, non_string_map_keys2.zip, > non_string_map_keys3.zip, non_string_map_keys4.patch, > non_string_map_keys5.patch, non_string_map_keys6.patch, > non_string_map_keys7.patch > > > Based on an email thread back in April, Doug Cutting proposed a possible > solution for having non-string keys: > Stu Hood wrote: > > I can understand the reasoning behind AVRO-9, but now I need to look for an > > alternative to a 'map' that will allow me to store an association of bytes > > keys to values. > A map of Foo has the same binary format as an array of records, each > with a string field and a Foo field. So an application can use an array > schema similar to this to represent map-like structures with, e.g., > non-string keys. > Perhaps we could establish standard properties that indicate that a > given array of records should be represented in a map-like way if > possible? E.g.,: > {"type": "array", "isMap": true, "items": {"type":"record", ...}} > Doug -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)