Hi Mike! Yep, the specification calls out that only those types that are named (records, enums, and fixed) can occur multiple times in a union[1].
[1]: http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.7/spec.html#Unions On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Michael Pigott < mpigott.subscripti...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I looked through the JIRA tickets but I did not find one that matched > what I just ran into - unions can't have multiple maps, even if each one > has a different value type? Automatic-map-generation is the last feature > I'm adding to AVRO-457 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-457> > (before > Avro -> XML conversion) and I was surprised that two maps, each with > different value types, could not co-exist in a union. Is this on purpose? > > Thanks! > Mike > -- Sean
