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[jira] [Created] (AVRO-2474) Support a "unit" property of schema fields

Erik Erlandson created AVRO-2474:
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             Summary: Support a "unit" property of schema fields
                 Key: AVRO-2474
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2474
             Project: Apache Avro
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: spec
    Affects Versions: 1.9.0
            Reporter: Erik Erlandson


Recently I have been experimenting with avro schema that are extended with a "unit" field. By "unit" I mean expressions like "second", or "megabyte" - that is "units of measure".
 
I received some community interest in making this concept "first class" for avro; I'm filing this JIRA to track the idea. 
 
I delivered a short talk on my experiments at Berlin Buzzwords, which can be viewed here:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrQmB2KFKE8]
 
I also wrote a short blog post that may be faster to ingest:
[http://erikerlandson.github.io/blog/2019/05/23/unit-types-for-avro-schema-integrating-avro-with-coulomb/]
 
The project itself is here:
[https://github.com/erikerlandson/coulomb]
 
 
 



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