[jira] [Updated] (AVRO-1157) Idl tool - parse properties as plain String OR expose the property as Json

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

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Doug Cutting updated AVRO-1157:
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    Attachment: AVRO-1157.patch

Here's a patch that implements this.  However note how strange the addition to simple.avpr looks.  If we really want to support complex Json annotations then we should really extend the APIs of Protocol, Schema, and Field.

What's the motivating use case?  In the examples you provide above, why can't you simply use something like, @EntityColumnFamily("test"), @ColumnId("id") and @ColumnName("name")?
                
> Idl tool - parse properties as plain String OR expose the property as Json
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-1157
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1157
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: java, spec
>    Affects Versions: 1.7.1
>            Reporter: Cristian Opris
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: AVRO-1157.patch
>
>
> The IDL Tool currently parses "annotations" as Json objects but only really supports textual values.
> If one wants to have actual json annotations, they need to write json as an escaped json string.
> Proposed solutions:
> - expose the property as Json if it's parsed as Json
> - OR  parse the property as a string

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