[AVRO-79] The spec does not say how to encode default values for "fixed"

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1.0
• Component/s: java
• Assignee: Thiruvalluvan M. G.
• Reporter: Thiruvalluvan M. G.
• Created: 18/Jul/09 04:29
• Updated: 16/Sep/09 22:31
• Resolved: 20/Jul/09 21:04

Description

The spec is silent on how to encode default values for "fixed" type in schema. The code in GenericDatumReader suggests that that it should be encoded as a JSON string with Java's platform default charset. A more appropriate way is to encode "fixed" in the same way as binary, that is a string with ISO-8859-1.

I'll submit a patch for this soon.