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Subject: Re: issue with default values in avro
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Worked like a charm! 

Thanks Doug! 

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On Feb 8, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Doug Cutting <cutting@apache.org> wrote:

> Serge,
> 
> Default field values are primarily used when reading records that don't
> have those fields, typically an older version of the record.
> 
> GenericData.Record's constructor does not use default values to populate
> fields.  All fields in an instance created by 'new
> GenericData.Record(<schema>)' are initially null, not set to the default
> value of the schema.
> 
> However the GenericRecordBuilder API does use default values to populate
> instances.  The value of 'new GenericRecordBuilder(<schema>).set("SSN",
> "XXX").build()' should contain what you want.
> 
> Doug
> 
> On 02/08/2012 03:35 PM, Serge Blazhievsky wrote:
>>      Hi all,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I am trying to utilize default setting for values in avro schema,
>> however, it does not seems to be set.
>> 
>> 
>> My code is below.
>> 
>> 
>>      List<Schema.Field> fields2 = new ArrayList<Schema.Field>();
>> 
>>       org.codehaus.jackson.JsonNode defaultValue2
>> =TextNode.valueOf("default2");
>> 
>>       fields2.add(new Schema.Field("SSN", Schema.create(Type.STRING),
>> "Second schema", defaultValue2));
>> 
>>       fields2.add(new Schema.Field("LastName",
>> Schema.create(Type.STRING), "Second schema", defaultValue2));
>> 
>>       Schema schema2 = Schema.createRecord("blah", "blah",
>> "merced.ssn", false);
>> 
>>       schema2.setFields(fields2);
>> 
>> 
>>       System.out.println(schema2.toString(true));
>> 
>>        GenericRecord r=new GenericData.Record(schema2);
>> 
>> 
>>        r.put("SSN", "12345");
>> 
>>        System.out.println(r.get("LastName"));
>> 
>> 
>>        System.out.println(r.toString());
>> 
>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>> 
>> {
>>  "type" : "record",
>>  "name" : "blah",
>>  "namespace" : "merced.ssn",
>>  "doc" : "blah",
>>  "fields" : [ {
>>    "name" : "SSN",
>>    "type" : "string",
>>    "doc" : "Second schema",
>>    "default" : "default2"
>>  }, {
>>    "name" : "LastName",
>>    "type" : "string",
>>    "doc" : "Second schema",
>>    "default" : "default2"
>>  } ]
>> }
>> null
>> {"SSN": "12345", "LastName": null}
>> 
>> 
>> I expect LastName to be set to default2
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you for your help.
>> 
>> Serge
>>