On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Koert Kuipers <ko...@tresata.com> wrote: > you cannot use avro to ensure the data comes in the format you expect (the > negative numbers issue). you will have to parse these variations before > converting to avro.
Unless, of course, you can get the folks sending you data to agree to send it in Avro. If you specifically get them to send the numbers coded as one of the number types in Avro (rather than i.e. a string), you'd be able to parse it the same way all of the time. -- busbey
