Thanks Doug. If we go the C++ route (as opposed to a JNI wrapper) we’ll need support for all of the compressors that could be in common use in the field, so that’s probably all of them. It looks like snappy, bzip, and xz are all available as native C/C++ libraries. If we go that route, I don’t have a problem working on the C++ integration, but we have no experience with the mechanics of contributing to Apache open-source projects and would need some help getting that done right.
This leads me to a few questions: · Is the Avro/ C++ community active? · Is there currently any Windows (Visual C++ project) support? · With regards to these codec libraries, would we add compile-time switches in Avro C++ to control support for the additional codecs? · Should it be assumed that the packages are installed on the system in a standard place? Thanks, John From: Doug Cutting [mailto:cutt...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, August 15, 2014 11:29 AM To: user@avro.apache.org Subject: Re: State of the C++ vs Java implementations On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 1:03 PM, John Lilley <john.lil...@redpoint.net<mailto:john.lil...@redpoint.net>> wrote: Do you know where I can find a list of codecs supported in Java vs C++? Grepping the Avro C++ headers, it seems to support just the null codec and deflate. These are the two codecs that every implementation is meant to support. http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html#Required+Codecs It would wonderful if someone contributed Snappy support to C++, but that's not yet happened. Java additionally supports snappy, bzip2 and xz. http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/api/java/org/apache/avro/file/CodecFactory.html Doug
