[jira] Resolved: (AVRO-50) bidrectional text representation of AVRO data

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-50?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Doug Cutting resolved AVRO-50.
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       Resolution: Fixed
    Fix Version/s: 1.0.1

I just committed this.  Thanks, Thiru!

> bidrectional text representation of AVRO data
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>
>                 Key: AVRO-50
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-50
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: spec
>            Reporter: Philip Zeyliger
>            Assignee: Doug Cutting
>             Fix For: 1.0.1
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>         Attachments: AVRO-50.patch, AVRO-50.patch, AVRO-50.patch, AVRO-50.patch, AVRO-50.patch, AVRO-50.patch, AVRO-50.sh, AVRO-50.sh, AVRO-50.sh
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> It would be very useful to add a text representation of AVRO data to the spec, and implement toString() and fromString() in all implementations.  Faced with binary data, it'll be a useful operation to decode it for debugging, ad-hoc manipulation, etc.
> I suspect the text format will:
>  * be JSON
>  * require the schema for full interpretation
>  * map easily onto the binary format (if the binary format has a signifier to take a specific branch of a union, the text format will have such a signifier as well)
>  * not be unique (there's more than one way to encode a given number (e.g., {{0x0 == 0}}) or string (e.g., {{"\u0061" == "a"}}, not to mention flexible whitespace)
>  * be compatible, for the binary type, with whatever is decided in AVRO-36

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