[jira] Commented: (AVRO-642) Prettify the json dumped during exceptions while validating a writer/reader schema

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

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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-642:
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This causes Python unit tests to fail for me.  Also, can you please post this as a single patch file?  Thanks!

> Prettify the json dumped during exceptions while validating a writer/reader schema
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-642
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-642
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: java, python
>    Affects Versions: 1.3.3
>         Environment: Avro-Trunk
>            Reporter: Harsh J Chouraria
>            Assignee: Harsh J Chouraria
>            Priority: Minor
>             Fix For: 1.4.1
>
>         Attachments: avro.java.schema.pretty.r1.diff, avro.py.schema.pretty.r1.diff
>
>   Original Estimate: 0.02h
>  Remaining Estimate: 0.02h
>
> Right now the exception that's thrown when a reader and written schema don't match (while reading a file), looks like this:
> {noformat}
> Found {"type":"record","name":"Test","fields":[{"name":"stringField","type":"string"},{"name":"longField","type":"long"}]}, expecting {"type":"record","name":"Test1","fields":[{"name":"stringField","type":"string"},{"name":"longField","type":"long"}]}
> {noformat}
> While this is perfectly okay for small schema with a few fields, it gets hard to debug for complex and large ones.
> The attached patch changes the exception message to look like:
> {noformat}
> Found {
>   "type" : "record",
>   "name" : "Test",
>   "fields" : [ {
>     "name" : "stringField",
>     "type" : "string"
>   }, {
>     "name" : "longField",
>     "type" : "long"
>   } ]
> }, expecting {
>   "type" : "record",
>   "name" : "Test1",
>   "fields" : [ {
>     "name" : "stringField",
>     "type" : "string"
>   }, {
>     "name" : "longField",
>     "type" : "long"
>   } ]
> }
> {noformat}
> P.s. Ideally a diff-like message would help too, but its mileage may vary. I guess with the pretty output printed, a user may easily do a diff (since they now have newlines), so us providing this is not _really_ needed.

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