Ok, cool. I've been using the python implementation pretty heavily and didn't realize that it was less mature. Will definitely work on maturing it where possible :)
2013/4/4 Philip Zeyliger <phi...@cloudera.com> > Hi Jonathan, > > The python implementation is definitely less mature than the Java one. As > you run into things, please do file bugs (and, better, yet, fixes!). > > At one point someone on this list was working on an alternative python > implementation that generated python objects to represent the Avro records. > I think that's a wise idea (and is what Thrift does). Not sure where > that's gone. > > -- Philip > > > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Jonathan Coveney <jcove...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I'm also running into issues where the Python and Java implementations >> are different (it seems like Java is less permissive than Python). Are >> these cases bugs? It can be frustrating for something to work in one but >> not the other. >> >> Having the info from the parallel recursion would allow us to have much >> better error messages. That would be great... >> >> >> 2013/4/4 Jeremy Kahn <troc...@trochee.net> >> >>> I think this would be tremendously useful. >>> >>> I am working - in my copious spare time - on improving schema validation >>> in the Python library, and I think I can see how to improve things there by >>> extending the data/schema parallel recursion to keep track of position in >>> each. >>> >>> Jeremy >>> On Apr 4, 2013 6:58 AM, "Jonathan Coveney" <jcove...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm working on migrating an internally developed serialization format >>>> to Avro. In the process, there have been many cases where I made a mistake >>>> migrating the schema (I've automated it), and then avro cries that a record >>>> I'm trying to serialize doesn't match the schema. Generally, the error it >>>> gives doesn't help find the actual issue, and for a big enough record >>>> finding the issue can be tedious. >>>> >>>> I've thought about making a tool which, given the schema and the record >>>> would tell you what the issue is, but I'm wondering if this already exists? >>>> I suppose the error message could also include this information... >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Jon >>>> >>> >> >
