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[jira] [Created] (AVRO-2359) Support Logical Types in C#

Tim Roberts created AVRO-2359:
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             Summary: Support Logical Types in C#
                 Key: AVRO-2359
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2359
             Project: Apache Avro
          Issue Type: New Feature
          Components: csharp
            Reporter: Tim Roberts


By not supporting Logical Types, the C# Avro implementation is severely limited in terms of its interoperability in heterogeneous environments. While the implementation will safely ignore logical type declarations in processed schemas; at runtime the semantics of a "date" for example, will be lost when receiving an Avro payload that was encoded by the Java platform using the same schema. The C# implementation will never be able to retrieve the date value from the encoded int.

I propose that the C# Avro implementation be extended to support the Logical Types as defined by the current specification. I have also explored the lang/csharp codebase and believe that I could produce a PR to support this.



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