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[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-1533) permit promotions between string and bytes

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1533?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14049021#comment-14049021 ] 

Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-1533:
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I'll commit this soon unless there are objections.

> permit promotions between string and bytes
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-1533
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1533
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: java
>            Reporter: Doug Cutting
>            Assignee: Doug Cutting
>             Fix For: 1.7.7
>
>         Attachments: AVRO-1533.patch, AVRO-1533.patch
>
>
> Avro strings are a subset of bytes, so promoting from string to bytes is lossless and should be possible.  Promotion from bytes to strings may cause problems, as not all byte strings are valid UTF8, but it also might be useful.



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