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Dean Ericson commented on AVRO-924: ----------------------------------- [~cutting] - bump > permit reading & writing arbitrary JSON as binary Avro data > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: AVRO-924 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-924 > Project: Avro > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: java > Reporter: Doug Cutting > Assignee: Doug Cutting > Fix For: 1.6.0 > > Attachments: AVRO-924.patch > > > It would be useful to permit reading and writing arbitrary JSON data as > binary Avro data. JSON is a popular data interchange format but can be > rather big and slow to process in some cases, e.g., for numeric data. Avro > can provide a smaller and faster to process binary format for JSON data. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)