[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-875) Support the ability to load a schema from a URL

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

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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-875:
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This is equivalent to parse(url.openStream()), no?

A URL is generally less available than a File.  Most applications that used URLs for Schemas would probably require more than this, since they'd probably want to cache the content, perhaps to a file, so they could continue to operate when the URL's content is not available on the network.  So I wonder if this method will be that useful on its own.

Do you have a use case where this API would be convenient?  Can you please describe it a bit?  Thanks!

> Support the ability to load a schema from a URL
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-875
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-875
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: Bill Graham
>            Assignee: Bill Graham
>         Attachments: AVRO-875_1.patch
>
>
> It would be very convenient to load an Avro Schema or Protocol from a URL. This would allow for schema repositories.

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