[AVRO-1157] Idl tool - parse properties as plain String OR expose the property as Json

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.3
• Component/s: java, spec
• Assignee: Doug Cutting
• Reporter: Cristian Opris
• Created: 12/Sep/12 17:17
• Updated: 10/Dec/12 17:57
• Resolved: 01/Nov/12 17:44

Description

The IDL Tool currently parses "annotations" as Json objects but only really supports textual values.

If one wants to have actual json annotations, they need to write json as an escaped json string.

Proposed solutions:

• expose the property as Json if it's parsed as Json
• OR parse the property as a string

Issue Links

• blocks: AVRO-1186 Java Annotations via IDL