[jira] [Created] (AVRO-3045) Wrong Validation in Python Avro Implementation

["Carlos Teixeira (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Carlos Teixeira created AVRO-3045:
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             Summary: Wrong Validation in Python Avro Implementation
                 Key: AVRO-3045
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3045
             Project: Apache Avro
          Issue Type: Bug
            Reporter: Carlos Teixeira


Hi, 
This has been raised by my colleague Adamos (cc @adamosloizou)

Seems like in the python implementation of Avro there is a [check|https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/master/lang/py3/avro/schema.py#L399] that verifies that a schema name is not part of *VALID_TYPES* which include the following:



{code:java}
VALID_TYPES = frozenset.union(
 PRIMITIVE_TYPES,
 NAMED_TYPES,
 [
 ARRAY,
 MAP,
 UNION,
 REQUEST,
 ERROR_UNION,
 ],
)
{code}

This check means that a type names can't be "record" or "array". This however is not spec compliant since the spec says that names need only to :

 * start with [A-Za-z_]
 * subsequently contain only [A-Za-z0-9_]
 * Primitive type names have no namespace and their names may not be defined in any namespace.

As such, and since "record" and "array" are not primitive types their usage shouldn't result in an error.

 

 



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