Minor Description
Currently AvroTypeException is defined as
public class AvroTypeException extends AvroRuntimeException {
public AvroTypeException(String message)
public AvroTypeException(String message, Throwable cause)
{ super(message, cause); }}
And when used in JSONDecoder, field name failures are defined like this:
throw new AvroTypeException("Expected field name not found: " + fa.fname);
This means that, in the event of an AvroTypeException, the only way to find which field has the error is to scan through the error message.
If the AvroTypeException had a constructor (message, throwable, field) or a subclass which explicitly provided fields, then it would make error processing much easier.