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[jira] [Updated] (FLINK-9569) Confusing construction of AvroSerializers for generic records

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9569?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

ASF GitHub Bot updated FLINK-9569:
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> Confusing construction of AvroSerializers for generic records
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>                 Key: FLINK-9569
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-9569
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Type Serialization System
>            Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
>            Assignee: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>
> The {{AvroSerializer}} currently has a {{AvroSerializer(Class<T> type, Schema schema)}} public constructor when used for generic records.
> This is a bit confusing, because when using the \{{AvroSerializer}}, the type to be serialized should always be a {{GenericData.Record}} type.
> We should either:
> - have a separate subclass of {{AvroSerializer}}, say {{GenericRecordAvroSerializer}} that is a {{AvroSerializer<GenericRecord>}}, or
> - follow a similar approach to the instantiation methods in the {{AvroDeserialiationSchema}}. 



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