[AVRO-1147] Allow Stringable Map keys in addition to pure String keys (avro reflection)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.2
• Component/s: java
• Labels: newbie patch
• Assignee: Alexandre Normand
• Reporter: Alexandre Normand
• Created: 05/Sep/12 19:38
• Updated: 25/Sep/12 21:16
• Resolved: 10/Sep/12 23:42

Description

I'm using avro reflection for some serialization that doesn't require the best performance for some short-lived data.

However, the object I'm trying to serialize uses a Map with non-String keys (the key class is Integer) and, because of the strict restriction on Map keys being Strings, it fails.

Could we consider allowing Map keys to be Stringable classes (I'm thinking of something similar to Doug's solution in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1146)