[AVRO-2091] Eliminate org.apache.avro.specific.use_custom_coder feature flag

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: java
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Raymie Stata
• Created: 07/Oct/17 23:58
• Updated: 01/Oct/18 01:57

Description

After the implementation of "custom coders" (AVRO-2090) is complete and seen more production usage, this feature flag should be eliminated.  (More specifically, the initial release of AVRO-2090 should set USE_CUSTOM_CODERS to false by default, to get some initial production testing.  The release after that should set this flag to true by default, but allow folks to fall back on the old way in case there are corner cases that aren't working.  The release after that should remove this feature flag altogether, under the assumption that it works just fine and there's no need to maintain two ways of doing things.)

Issue Links

• is blocked by: AVRO-2092 Flip default value of org.apache.avro.specific.use_custom_coder to true
• is blocked by: AVRO-2090 Improve encode/decode time for SpecificRecord using code generation