Anything else left to do? let me know
thank you —Z > On Apr 30, 2017, at 11:16 PM, Thiruvalluvan M. G. (JIRA) <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1723?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=15990573#comment-15990573 > ] > > Thiruvalluvan M. G. commented on AVRO-1723: > ------------------------------------------- > > [~zolyfarkas] Great. I just added a test for forward reference: > https://github.com/zolyfarkas/avro/pull/2. Please merge it to your branch > when you can. > > I'll pull your patch in two days. > >> Add support for forward declarations in avro IDL >> ------------------------------------------------ >> >> Key: AVRO-1723 >> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1723 >> Project: Avro >> Issue Type: Improvement >> Affects Versions: 1.8.0 >> Reporter: Zoltan Farkas >> Assignee: Zoltan Farkas >> Attachments: AVRO-1723.patch >> >> >> Currently Recursive data structures like: >> record SampleNode { >> int count = 0; >> array<SamplePair> samples = []; >> } >> record SamplePair { >> string name; >> SampleNode node; >> } >> It is not possible to declare in IDL, >> however it is possible to declare in avsc (with fix from >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1667 ) >> It is actually not complicated to implement, here is some detail on a >> possible implementation: >> https://github.com/zolyfarkas/avro/commit/210c50105717149f3daa39b8d4160b8548b8e363 >> This would close a capability gap with google protocol buffers... > > > > -- > This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA > (v6.3.15#6346)
