[jira] [Assigned] (AVRO-2048) Avro Binary Decoding - Gracefully Handle Long Strings

["BELUGA BEHR (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2048?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

BELUGA BEHR reassigned AVRO-2048:
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    Assignee: BELUGA BEHR

> Avro Binary Decoding - Gracefully Handle Long Strings
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-2048
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2048
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: java
>    Affects Versions: 1.7.7, 1.8.2
>            Reporter: BELUGA BEHR
>            Assignee: BELUGA BEHR
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: AVRO-2048.1.patch
>
>
> According to the [specs|https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.8.2/spec.html#binary_encode_primitive]:
> bq. a string is encoded as a *long* followed by that many bytes of UTF-8 encoded character data.
> However, that is currently not being adhered to:
> {code:title=org.apache.avro.io.BinaryDecoder}
>   @Override
>   public Utf8 readString(Utf8 old) throws IOException {
>     int length = readInt();
>     Utf8 result = (old != null ? old : new Utf8());
>     result.setByteLength(length);
>     if (0 != length) {
>       doReadBytes(result.getBytes(), 0, length);
>     }
>     return result;
>   }
> {code}
> The first thing the code does here is to load an *int* value, not a *long*.  Because of the variable length nature of the size, this will mostly work.  However, there may be edge-cases where the serializer is putting in large length values erroneously or nefariously. Let us gracefully detect such scenarios and more closely adhere to the spec.



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