Can we do the same thing if we generate the Java classes from the avro IDL ?
I am thinking something along the lines of: record Person { string name; @targetClass("java.util.Date") long dateOfBirth; @targetClass("java.util.Date") long registrationDatetime; } On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Evan McClain <aeroe...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 03:00:25PM -0500, David Lauzon wrote: > > > > 300 million years is more than enough :-) > > Is there a way to get this long to deserialize automatically to a Java > > 7 compatible type, like java.util.Date ? > > (I'm using a framework which currently has issues on JDK 8). > > If you are using reflection to encode POJOs as avro, it's easy enough to do > with DateAsLongEncoding: > > @AvroEncode(using=DateAslongEncoding.class) > Date someDate; > > See: > https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.7/api/java/org/apache/avro/reflect/DateAsLongEncoding.html > > And it's fairly easy to write your own encoder for java 8 java.time.Instant > when you can upgrade to java 8. > > -- > Evan McClain > https://keybase.io/aeroevan >