JsonEncoder and unions

[Giancarlo Frison <gf...@chelab.com>]

Hi all,

Question 1:

I need to set fields as nullable. In order to accomplish this, I registered
such fields as union(string,null).
when I encode objects through json encoder the output generated is
"field":{"string":"blablabla"}
Is there a config property or a way to encode as "field":"blablabla"?

question 2:

Is it possible to configure JsonDecoder for reading unordered field input?

thanks,

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Giancarlo Frison
http://gfrison.com

Re: JsonEncoder and unions

[Doug Cutting <cu...@apache.org>]

On 07/28/2011 02:06 AM, Giancarlo Frison wrote:
> I need to set fields as nullable. In order to accomplish this, I
> registered such fields as union(string,null).
> when I encode objects through json encoder the output generated is
> "field":{"string":"blablabla"}
> Is there a config property or a way to encode as "field":"blablabla"?

This is not currently possible.  The specification defines this:

http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.5.1/spec.html#json_encoding

> question 2:
> 
> Is it possible to configure JsonDecoder for reading unordered field input?

That is an unfortunate aspect of the Java implementation of the JsonDecoder.

http://s.apache.org/E2N

Doug