Thanks Suraj, but that's not what I mean.
For your second schema, it is possible to pass in an empty array `[]`
containing no elements. I would like to prevent that.
On 8 May 2017 at 19:32, Suraj Acharya <su...@apache.org> wrote:
> This is what I have done in my application :
>
> {"name": "clients", "type": [ {"type": "array", "items": "Client"}, "null" ]}
>
> This allows me to pass null. What you can try is something like this :
>
> {"name": "info", "type": { "type": "array", "items": "Information" }
>
> In this example, info is something that needs to be passed for every
> client.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>
> On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Tianxiang Xiong <tianxiang.xiong@
> fundingcircle.com> wrote:
>
>> In Avro 1.7.7, is there a way to specify a *non-empty* array, map, etc.?
>> There doesn't seem to be according to the spec
>> <https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.7/spec.html#Maps>.
>>
>> There are applications in which we mandate that a data format has a
>> non-empty array. It'd be nice if that could be expressed in the schema so
>> data with nonempty arrays fail to serialize (and are thus never put on a
>> Kafka topic). Fail earlier > fail later.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> TX
>>
>
>
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