[jira] [Updated] (AVRO-1535) permit aliases to null namespace

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1535?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Doug Cutting updated AVRO-1535:
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    Attachment: AVRO-1535.patch

Here's a patch that fixes this, by interpreting names of the form ".X" to refer to "X" in the null namespace.

> permit aliases to null namespace
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-1535
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1535
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: java
>            Reporter: Doug Cutting
>            Assignee: Doug Cutting
>             Fix For: 1.7.7
>
>         Attachments: AVRO-1535.patch
>
>
> It is impossible to specify an alias to a record name that does not have a namespace from a record name that does have an alias.  This is because aliases without a specified namespace are assumed to be in the namespace of the record that contains the alias.



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