[GitHub] [avro] rayokota edited a comment on pull request #869: AVRO-2822: Add toString that doesn't inline referenced schemas

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rayokota edited a comment on pull request #869:
URL: https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/869#issuecomment-621271223


   @RyanSkraba , yes, it is to be able to write nested schemas only by name, instead of inlining them.   Currently in https://github.com/confluentinc/schema-registry/issues/1432 I am having to place my code in the `org.apache.avro` package because this functionality is available, but is package-private.
   
   The motivation behind this is that with Schema Registry, we have a very large customer who wants to be able to evolve and version nested schemas independent of the root schema.  In order to do this, the latest versions of nested schemas will be added to the `Parser` dynamically.  So the root schema should not contain the inline nested schemas, but only refer to them by name.
   
   Below is an example of output of this method, given nested or referenced schemas with name `acme.Product`.  Note that only the name is generated rather than the `acme.Product` schema being generated inline.
   
   ```
   {
    "type": "record",
    "namespace": "acme",
    "name": "order",
    "fields": [
        {"name": "order_id", "type": "string"},
        {"name": "order_date", "type": "string"},
        {
           "name": "product",
           "type": "acme.product"
        }
    ]
   }
   ```


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