This looks like a bug.
I have a proposed fix in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-948.
Doug
On 10/28/2011 12:59 AM, Andrew Kenworthy wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I'm trying out the latest Avro tag (1.6.0-rc0) as the new
> ThriftDatumReader/Writer classes look really interesting (we currently
> receive thrift files as input for our hadoop jobs and would like to
> convert them to avro format as early as possible, and then use avro
> (de-)serialisation throughout our job stack).
>
> I have tried out the test case (TestThrift) and it works fine until I
> comment out the line:
>
> test.setStringField("foo");
>
> at which point the test fails as null values don't seem to be allowed.
> Is this intentional or is there something basic that I have not
> understood?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Kenworthy
