[AVRO-1443] SpecificRecord builders should share more functionality with GenericRecord builders

• Type: Bug
• Status: Patch Available
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.5, 1.7.6
• Component/s: java
• Assignee: Christophe Taton
• Reporter: Christophe Taton
• Created: 21/Jan/14 08:05
• Updated: 01/Jun/20 16:59

Description

Ideally, wherever a generic record builder is expected, one should be able to supply a builder for a specific record.

That could happen by making SpecificRecordBuilderBase (and SpecificErrorBuilderBase?) a subclass of GenericRecordBuilder.

Since SpecificRecordBase implements GenericRecord, it should be possible with minimal effort.