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Martin Tzvetanov Grigorov commented on AVRO-3778:
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What would be the purpose of such equivalence ?
Would you expect to be able to read Avro files written with the equivalent
schema ?
> Ability to perform semantic equality check for two schemas
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> Key: AVRO-3778
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3778
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Reporter: Swaranga Sarma
> Priority: Major
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> I would like to check if two schemas are equivalent. For instance:
> {{{"type":"record","name":"Person","fields":[\{"name":"name","type":"string"},\{"name":"age","type":"int"}]}}}
> {{and}}
> {{{"type":"record","name":"Person","fields":[\{"name":"age","type":"int"},\{"name":"name","type":"string"}]}}}
> can be considered semantically equivalent since the record has the same set
> of fields only just reordered in the declaration.
> If I do {{schema1.equals(schema2)}} for the above, the Avro Java library will
> say false. Would it be reasonable to add an "equivalence" method to detect
> such cases?
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