[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-1502) Avro objects should implement Serializable

["Doug Cutting (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-1502:
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It's tempting to add 'extends Serializable' to GenericContainer.  But this would serialize the schema along with every instance which is probably too expensive.

So we might we limit this to specific-compiler-generated classes, which hold their schema in a static field.  To be safe, we should probably set the serialVersionUID to the schema fingerprint.  Also, SpecificFixed currently inherits from GenericData.Fixed which includes the schema as a field, so that needs to be changed so that it instead directly implements GenericFixed and uses the statically generated schema.

> Avro objects should implement Serializable
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-1502
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1502
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: java
>            Reporter: Jeff Hammerbacher
>




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