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Zoltan Farkas updated AVRO-1723: -------------------------------- Fix Version/s: 1.9.0 > Add support for forward declarations in avro IDL > ------------------------------------------------ > > Key: AVRO-1723 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1723 > Project: Apache Avro > Issue Type: Improvement > Affects Versions: 1.8.0 > Reporter: Zoltan Farkas > Assignee: Zoltan Farkas > Priority: Major > Fix For: 1.9.0 > > 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 (v7.6.3#76005)