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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:12:57 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Doug Cutting (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] Updated: (AVRO-656) writing unions with multiple records,
 fixed or enums can choose wrong branch
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Doug Cutting updated AVRO-656:
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    Attachment: AVRO-656.patch

Updated patch for changes to trunk.

> writing unions with multiple records, fixed or enums can choose wrong branch 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: AVRO-656
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-656
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: java
>    Affects Versions: 1.4.0
>            Reporter: Doug Cutting
>            Assignee: Doug Cutting
>             Fix For: 1.5.0
>
>         Attachments: AVRO-656.patch, AVRO-656.patch, AVRO-656.patch, AVRO-656.patch
>
>
> According to the specification, a union may contain multiple instances of a named type, provided they have different names.  There are several bugs in the Java implementation of this when writing data:
>  - for record, only the short-name of the record is checked, so the branch for a record of the same name in a different namespace may be used by mistake
>  - for enum and fixed, the name of the record is not checked, so the first enum or fixed in the union will always be assumed when writing.  in many cases this may cause the wrong data to be written, potentially corrupting output.
> This is not a regression.  This has never been implemented correctly by Java.  Python and Ruby never check names, but rather perform a full, recursive validation of content.

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