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Improvement
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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1.3.2
Description
Suppose you have these two types in your protocol:
{"name": "User", "type": "record", "fields": [{"name": "current_status", "type": "Status"}]}
{"name": "Status", "type": "record", "fields": [{"name": "author", "type": "User"}]}
This will raise an error! The current workaround is to define one of them at their first usage. Like:
{"name": "User", "type": "record", "fields": [{"name": "current_status", "type": {"name": "Status", "type": "record", "fields": [.. lots of fields ...]}]}
But this is incredibly unwieldy. It would be really nice for the spec to require all the parsers to allow for mutual recursion, instead. It could be done by implementing a two-pass parser. One pass to acquire names referenced, and a second to fill in those names with their appropriate references.
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