[AVRO-1324] Avro-C: namespace lookup and inherited namespaces

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.4, 1.7.5, 1.8.0
• Component/s: c
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ben Walsh
• Created: 07/May/13 11:46
• Updated: 24/May/13 16:10
• Resolved: 24/May/13 13:49

Description

It seems that the C version of Avro doesn't resolve fully-qualified type names, and it doesn't
understand inherited namespaces.

For example this doesn't work:

{"type": "record", "namespace": "x", "name": "Y", "fields": [
{"name": "e", "type": {"type": "record", "name": "Z", "fields": [

{"name": "f", "type": "x.Z"}

]}}
]}

It can't find the type "x.Z".

(this is similar to a Ruby problem https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-635).