Hi,
Are there plans to make C# feature equivalent? The major differences seem to be:
1. C# doesn't support the Avro IDL schema definition
2. C# doesn't support the JSON serialization codec
3. We had a case where we wanted to deserialize a json array which we can
do in Java with Schema.createArray. The equivalent construct in C# was private
and so not externally accessible.
We're making extensive use of Apache avro to communicate between Java and C#
applications using JSON serialization rather than binary and in some cases we
are creating schemas to match non-avro generated json from 'legacy'
applications. I copied the Java json codec to C# and have got it working (I
wont claim its fully tested though). More than happy to post this somewhere if
its useful.
The other tweak we made was to change how 'default' values were serialized. We
created a new writer classes that if the field value equaled the default it
didn't serialize it, and a new reader class that set missing fields to the
schema default if defined (missing non-defaulted fields are still an error).
The advantage is that the JSON created is much cleaner and can be readily
consumed by a jackson or any other json framework. (Currently these aren't
ported to C# due to lack of time).
Are any of the above already scheduled to be added. Some of them might be
contra to the avro approach though.
Thanks
Nigel
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