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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 17:12:56 -0800
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Subject: Re: Question about Avro "records"
From: Doug Cutting <cutting@apache.org>
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I don't think that's valid.  In general a value should be written for
each field in the writer's schema.  It's not ideal for json, but those
are the rules for binary and it's best if such read/write logic can be
unaware of whether json or binary are being produced.  I suspect such
json would break existing implementations, but I've not checked.

Doug

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Doug Cutting <cutting@apache.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Francis Galiegue <fgaliegue@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hmm, OK, the reader/writer distinction is something I am not accustomed to.
>>
>> http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/spec.html#Schema+Resolution
>>
>> Doug
>
> Hmmm, that does not quite answer my question about production of default values.
>
> For instance, when emitting data from an avro schema which reads:
>
> {
>     "type": "record",
>     "name": "whatever",
>     "fields": [ { "name": "a", "type": { "type": "int", "default": 0 } } ]
> }
>
> is emitting {} legal?
>
>
> --
> Francis Galiegue, fgaliegue@gmail.com
> JSON Schema in Java: http://json-schema-validator.herokuapp.com