Is adding an alias a backwards incompatible change? I have two schemas. I'm going from V2 to V1 and getting an error that the field is missing. Am I missing something again?
Here is V1: { "namespace": "model", "type": "record", "name": "SimpleCard", "fields": [ { "name": "suit", "type": "string", "doc" : "The suit of the card" } ] } Here is V2: { "namespace": "model", "type": "record", "name": "SimpleCardV2", "aliases": ["SimpleCard"], "fields": [ { "name": "cardsuit", "type": "string", "doc" : "The suit of the card", "aliases": ["suit"] } ] } Here is the stack trace: org.apache.avro.AvroTypeException: Found model.SimpleCardV2, expecting model.SimpleCard, missing required field suit at org.apache.avro.io.ResolvingDecoder.doAction(ResolvingDecoder.java:292) at org.apache.avro.io.parsing.Parser.advance(Parser.java:88) at org.apache.avro.io.ResolvingDecoder.readFieldOrder(ResolvingDecoder.java:130) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.readRecord(GenericDatumReader.java:215) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.readWithoutConversion(GenericDatumReader.java:175) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:153) at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericDatumReader.read(GenericDatumReader.java:145) Thanks, Jesse