Thank you Nandor,
I had already done this test, but in my context it is very important to respect
the specified order.
In my opinion the class SchemaBuilder.UnionFieldTypeBuilder should provide the
methods type(name), type (name, namespace) and type(schemaType).
I will check if a jira already exists for this issue.
Thank you
Tony
De : Nandor Kollar [mailto:nkol...@cloudera.com]
Envoyé : jeudi 6 juillet 2017 10:43
À : user@avro.apache.org
Objet : Re: Impossible to start an union with a named type
Hi Tony,
If you change the order of elements in the author field, it is fine:
@Test
public void testUnion() {
Schema schema = SchemaBuilder
.unionOf()
.record("Author")
.fields()
.name("name").type().stringType().noDefault()
.name("birthday").type().longType().noDefault()
.endRecord().and()
.record("Book")
.fields()
.name("title").type().stringType().noDefault()
.name("author").type().unionOf()
.stringType().and()
.type("Author")
.endUnion()
.noDefault()
.endRecord().endUnion();
}
The specification doesn't say anything about the order of types in a union, so
I guess it shouldn't limit it, I think you're right, your code should compile.
Maybe this is a bug in the SchemaBuilder?
Nandor
On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Tony Imbault
<timba...@talend.com<mailto:timba...@talend.com>> wrote:
Hi everybody,
i am trying to build the followong JSON schema:
[{
"type": "record",
"name": "Author",
"fields": [{
"name": "name",
"type": "string"
},
{
"name": "birthday",
"type": "long"
}]
},
{
"type": "record",
"name": "Book",
"fields": [{
"name": "title",
"type": "string"
},
{
"name": "author",
"type": ["Author", "string"]
}]
}]
In my humble opinion this JSON schema is valid.
But it seems that the SchemaBuilder API does not permit to build this schema.
The corresponding code should be something like that:
Schema schema = SchemaBuilder
.unionOf()
.record("Author")
.fields()
.name("name").type().stringType().noDefault()
.name("birthday").type().longType().noDefault()
.endRecord().and()
.record("Book")
.fields()
.name("title").type().stringType().noDefault()
.name("author").type().unionOf()
.type("Author").and()
.stringType().endUnion()
.noDefault()
.endRecord().endUnion();
But after a call to unionOf() the type(name) method is not available.
Is there any reason for this limitation?
Thank you very much
Tony Imbault
