I am not sure how easy it is to add that compiler extension to link to external Java class from Avro def file.
If not hard, maybe that is the cleanest way to do it. - Henry On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 10:17 PM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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* >> > > > > -- > *Lewis* >
