[jira] [Created] (AVRO-1924) Variable named 'date' in IDL

["Niels Basjes (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Niels Basjes created AVRO-1924:
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             Summary: Variable named 'date' in IDL
                 Key: AVRO-1924
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1924
             Project: Avro
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Niels Basjes
            Assignee: Ryan Blue


I was compiling Apache Parquet and found that the switch from Avro 1.8.0 to 1.8.1 broke their build.

The error: {code}
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.avro:avro-maven-plugin:1.8.1:idl-protocol (schemas) ... 
org.apache.avro.compiler.idl.ParseException: Encountered " "date" "date "" at line 23, column 14.
[ERROR] Was expecting one of:
[ERROR] <IDENTIFIER> ...
[ERROR] "@" ...
[ERROR] "`" ...
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
{code}

As it turns out they have a test idl that contains this:

{code}
@namespace("org.apache.parquet.avro")
protocol Cars {
    record Service {
        long date;
    }
}
{code}

And this change AVRO-1684 turned the word 'date' into something different for the idl compiler.

So changing the word 'date' into something else fixes the problem. 
Yet I think this is an undesirable effect for end user applications.

[~rdblue]: I assigned this to you implemented the mentioned change.




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