[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-1147) Allow Stringable Map keys in addition to pure String keys (avro reflection)

["Alexandre Normand (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Alexandre Normand commented on AVRO-1147:
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I've been playing around with the code to add a property on map schemas for which the key is a stringable class. It's working but before I put more time and effort into this to make this more real, I would love to hear some opinions either for or against that feature. 

Anyone?
                
> Allow Stringable Map keys in addition to pure String keys (avro reflection)
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>
>                 Key: AVRO-1147
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1147
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: java
>    Affects Versions: 1.7.0
>            Reporter: Alexandre Normand
>
> I'm using avro reflection for some serialization that doesn't require the best performance for some short-lived data. 
> However, the object I'm trying to serialize uses a {{Map}} with non-String keys (the key class is {{Integer}}) and, because of the strict restriction on Map keys being Strings, it fails. 
> Could we consider allowing Map keys to be *{{Stringable}}* classes (I'm thinking of something similar to Doug's solution in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1146)

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