Hi Martin, Thank you for the comment.
> Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 6:30 PM Kousuke Saruta <saru...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi developers, > > > > I'd like to discuss the specification of namespace. > > According to the specification, each dot separated portion of a namespace > > should be [a-zA-Z_]][a-zA-Z0-9_]*. > > https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.11.1/specification/#names > > > > But the actual implementations of some language bindings don't follow the > > specification, and accept any characters. > > Especially, the Java binding generates namespaces which contain "$" for > > inner classes generated by protobuf. > > > > So, should we need to review the namespace specification? > > > > To the developers who are familiar with the Java SDK: What problems do you > see if the generator stops producing "$", i.e. do something like > generated.replace('$', '') ? > Would that break existing apps ? > If we replace "$" with any other character in the new version of Avro, data serialized by an old Avro cannot be converted back to protobuf format, right? 2023年8月10日(木) 16:38 Martin Grigorov <mgrigo...@apache.org>: > Hi, > > On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 6:30 PM Kousuke Saruta <saru...@apache.org> wrote: > > > Hi developers, > > > > I'd like to discuss the specification of namespace. > > According to the specification, each dot separated portion of a namespace > > should be [a-zA-Z_]][a-zA-Z0-9_]*. > > https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.11.1/specification/#names > > > > But the actual implementations of some language bindings don't follow the > > specification, and accept any characters. > > Especially, the Java binding generates namespaces which contain "$" for > > inner classes generated by protobuf. > > > > So, should we need to review the namespace specification? > > > > To the developers who are familiar with the Java SDK: What problems do you > see if the generator stops producing "$", i.e. do something like > generated.replace('$', '') ? > Would that break existing apps ? > > > > > > > Thanks, > > Kousuke > > >
