[jira] [Updated] (AVRO-1402) Support for DECIMAL primitive type

["Tom White (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1402?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Tom White updated AVRO-1402:
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    Attachment: AVRO-1402.patch

Here's a new patch with javadoc and a section in the spec about record mappings.

bq. should we add a constant or method that returns the decimal schema?

You can get the decimal schema with {{new DecimalRecordMapping().getSchema()}}, or {{new DecimalRecordMapping(5, 3).getSchema()}} - is that sufficient?

bq. as a test of this new abstraction, will it be easy to fix AVRO-739 using it?

Yes, it should be. I'll try it out and report back.

> Support for DECIMAL primitive type
> ----------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-1402
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1402
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>    Affects Versions: 1.7.5
>            Reporter: Mariano Dominguez
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: Hive
>         Attachments: AVRO-1402.patch, AVRO-1402.patch, AVRO-1402.patch, AVRO-1402.patch
>
>
> Currently, Avro does not seem to support a DECIMAL type or equivalent.
> http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.5/spec.html#schema_primitive
> Adding DECIMAL support would be particularly interesting when converting types from Avro to Hive, since DECIMAL is already a supported data type in Hive (0.11.0).



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