Hi, I think this is a good idea!
Some PRs (mostly by dependabot) are not merged because Avro needs to be JDK 8 compatible and the dependencies require a newer JDK... I am not sure whether Avro 1.12.0 still needs to be JDK 8 compatible or not. Martin On Sat, Jan 6, 2024 at 5:55 PM Chad Preisler <chad.preis...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm wondering if there is any interest in making Apache Avro a proper Java > module? The following changes are required. > > - Add or generate the module-info.java file. > - Change the POM file to build a multi-release jar. > - Replace xerial Snappy with Apache commons-compress Snappy (see additional > information below). > - Update dependencies (like slf4) to the current versions. > - Build with newer JDK. I'm using 21. > > Regarding the Snappy compressor, the next version of Apache > commons-compress (1.25.1) can be swapped in for Xerial with no issues. All > of the existing unit tests will work without changes. Xerial is not a > proper Java module at this time, and it uses JNI which could make it tricky > (especially if the goal is to use jlink). > > For me, the motivation here is to use Avro with modularized > applications and custom runtime images using jlink. > > I currently have this working locally, and I can contribute my changes. > > Please let me know what you think. > > Thanks, > > Chad >
