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Sachin Goyal commented on AVRO-1285: ------------------------------------ There is an old ticket for circular references in the code as well : https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-695 You might want to use its patch locally if you need to support circular refs in data as well. > Avro schema compile does not support circular reference > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: AVRO-1285 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1285 > Project: Avro > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: java > Reporter: Viji > Priority: Minor > Attachments: multipass.tar > > > While declaring a Schema, doing a circular reference is not possible if the > Schema for the external reference is in another file. Attached is a project > that provides 2 schemas that exhibits this missing feature. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)