Aliases for primitive types

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Hello,

I want to define aliases/logical names for primitive types:

    protocol Test {

        string PartyId;

        record Header {

            PartyId partyId;

        }

    }

Is that possible in IDL or AVRO Schema language? Avro-Tools do not accept this. As a work-around, I can define:

    record PartyId {
        string _value;
    }

Though binary this seems equivalent, semantically (e.g. in generated Java code) this is not the same.

Custom names can be defined for enums and records, but it seems to me that AVRO doesn't offer mea ns for aliasing primitive types.

Thank you,

    Martin.