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Ryan Skraba commented on AVRO-3279:
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Hello! In my opinion, empty records are fine, but can have unintended
consequences. We actually ran into this situation once: reading infinitely
many zero-length records out of a zero-length buffer.
I'm not sure what the right thing to do would be for that case, except to avoid
using top-level schemas that exclusively serialize to zero bytes.
> How many fields one can have in record?
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> Key: AVRO-3279
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3279
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: spec
> Reporter: Askar Safin
> Priority: Major
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> The specification doesn't say how many fields one can have in a record, i. e.
> what is minimal count of fields. I think minimal count should be zero,
> because many programming languages allow empty records.
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> In my homegrown Rust Avro lib I allow empty records, because they are
> perfectly compatible with Rust type system
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