[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-3784) [Rust] Make Decimal more usable until its rewritten

["Fedor Telnov (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Fedor Telnov commented on AVRO-3784:
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Issue, that represents same feelings and request: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3331

I also added a PR - pretty simple

> [Rust] Make Decimal more usable until its rewritten
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-3784
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3784
>             Project: Apache Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Fedor Telnov
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>          Time Spent: 10m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
>
> I think there should be a possibility to extract bigint representation of the decimal. One could simply want to traverse its bits representation or smth like that. And that is not possible ATM.
> I think things are overly complicated currently - there is no reason to keep such a high level of an encapsulation on decimal type - anyway its API is such an unstable thing now - there were talks about a complete rewrite to something other then BigInt, and that would require API change anyway. So introducing simple Into<BigInt> would not hurt anyone, but indeed help a lot.



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