My previous discussion on user@avro for reference
http://www.mail-archive.com/user%40avro.apache.org/msg02488.html
Would still be interesting to see what the comments are like over here if
anyone has some,
Thanks
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney <
lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I'm close to finishing off my long overdue patch for adding Gora support
> to Log4J 2.X [0] however I have a question which I hope I've explained well
> enough.
> In my implementation, the 'object' I am modeling is a Gora instance of the
> Log4j 2.X NoSqlObject [1].
> As you can see this object is relatively simple with numerous set(key,
> value) methods where keys are always strings.
> The data modeling issue I am having is how to model the complex value if
> it is, for example, an Object, Object[ ], NoSqlObject or NoSqlObject[ ]?
> I _think_ I encountered a similar issue a long time aho and turned to Avro
> IDL to sort the issue out however before I do that I was thinking something
> along the lines of the following
>
> {
> "name": "GoraNoSqlObject",
> "type": "record",
> "namespace": "org.apache.logging.log4j.nosql.appender.gora",
> "doc": "GoraNoSqlObject represents the Gora implementation of NoSqlObject.",
> "fields": [
> {
> "name": "keySimpleValue",
> "type": {
> "type": "map",
> "values": ["null","NoSqlObject"]
> },
> "doc": "Sets the value of a property on this object to a nested complex
> object.",
> "default": {
> ...
> }
> },
> ...
>
> This however would assume that I could model 'NoSqlObject' elsewhere, and
> that it had been compiled and available on the GoraCompiler classpath prior
> to this GoraNoSqlObject class being compiled. To me this just doesn't look
> right.
> I just want to get feedback from anyone interested in this to see how they
> would build the data model.
> Thanks
> Lewis
>
> [0] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-603
> [1]
> https://logging.apache.org/log4j/2.0/log4j-nosql/apidocs/index.html?org/apache/logging/log4j/nosql/appender/NoSqlObject.html
>
> --
> *Lewis*
>
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*Lewis*
