[jira] [Created] (AVRO-2287) Ambiguous documentation around JSON encoding and names

["Greg Hale (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Greg Hale created AVRO-2287:
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             Summary: Ambiguous documentation around JSON encoding and names
                 Key: AVRO-2287
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2287
             Project: Apache Avro
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: doc
            Reporter: Greg Hale


{noformat}
otherwise it is encoded as a JSON object with one name/value pair whose name is the type's name and whose value is the recursively encoded value. For Avro's named types (record, fixed or enum) the user-specified name is used, for other types the type name is used.{noformat}
This quote from the [documentation|http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html#json_encoding] ([source|https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/c011d76436a1c11c614a133ae06abbc19baf2436/doc/src/content/xdocs/spec.xml#L574]) doesn't make it clear which names are allowed to be used in the encoded JSON.

For instance, if we are decoding a union value in JSON using its type name as a tag, do we need to use the type's _fullname_ (some.namespace.Foo), or can we use the unqualified name, Foo? Does the answer change if Foo does not have an explicit namespace in the schema? What should happen if the union's schema includes two types that differ only in namespace (namespace1.Foo vs. namespace2.Foo )?

 

 



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