[jira] [Comment Edited] (AVRO-1582) Json serialization of nullable fileds improvement.

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

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Doug Cutting edited comment on AVRO-1582 at 9/15/14 4:17 PM:
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That works for some unions but not all.  For example, ["null", "string", "bytes"] requires the tag.  Moreover, this would be an incompatible change to an Avro data format, and we've promised folks we won't change data formats incompatibly until we have a 2.0 release.

Note that GenericData#toString() will produce JSON output of the form you desire.


was (Author: cutting):
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> Json serialization of nullable fileds improvement.
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-1582
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1582
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: java
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.0
>            Reporter: Zoltan Farkas
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: AVRO-1582-PATCH
>
>
> Currently serializing a nullable field of type union like:
> "type" : ["null","some type"]
> when serialized as JSON results in:  
> "field":{"some type":"value"}
> when it could be:
> "field":"value"



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