[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-680) Allow for non-string keys

["Gaurav Nanda (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Gaurav Nanda commented on AVRO-680:
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Have we any plans to provide support for non-string keys?
                
> Allow for non-string keys
> -------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-680
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-680
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Jeremy Hanna
>
> Based on an email thread back in April, Doug Cutting proposed a possible solution for having non-string keys:
> Stu Hood wrote:
> > I can understand the reasoning behind AVRO-9, but now I need to look for an alternative to a 'map' that will allow me to store an association of bytes keys to values.
> A map of Foo has the same binary format as an array of records, each
> with a string field and a Foo field.  So an application can use an array
> schema similar to this to represent map-like structures with, e.g.,
> non-string keys.
> Perhaps we could establish standard properties that indicate that a
> given array of records should be represented in a map-like way if
> possible?  E.g.,:
> {"type": "array", "isMap": true, "items": {"type":"record", ...}}
> Doug

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