[jira] Updated: (AVRO-171) Protocol Introspection can produce invalid forward references

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-171?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Doug Cutting updated AVRO-171:
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    Attachment: AVRO-171.patch

Here's a patch that fixes this and AVRO-170, including a unit test.

> Protocol Introspection can produce invalid forward references
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-171
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-171
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: java
>    Affects Versions: 1.2.0
>         Environment: java
>            Reporter: Mr Fish
>         Attachments: AVRO-171.patch
>
>
> Take a look at this code which is what happens in the SpecificResponder handshake.
>         // server side
>         final Protocol protocol = ReflectData.get().getProtocol(MyServiceIface.class);
>         final String string = protocol.toString();
>         // client side
>         Protocol.parse(string);
> If you have a compound object made of 
> class A {
>     B1 b1;
>     B2 b2;
> }
> class B1 {
>     X x;
> }
> class B2 {
>     X x;
> }
> class X {
>  int i;
> }
> Then the types will be built up by RefectData.createSchema()
> A, B1, X, B2
> This is then reversed by RefectData.getProtocol() so B1 has no forward reference
> B2, X, B1, A.
> But this breaks B2
> org.apache.avro.SchemaParseException: Undefined name: "X"
>   

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