[AVRO-1252] enable compiler tool to generate String instead of Utf8

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.4
• Component/s: java
• Assignee: Doug Cutting
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 12/Feb/13 21:58
• Updated: 27/Feb/13 00:54
• Resolved: 19/Feb/13 23:22

Description

Since AVRO-803 the schema-to-Java compiler has permitted one to have strings represented with java.lang.String instead of org.apache.avro.util.Utf8. The Maven tasks that run the compiler permit one to specify this, but the command-line tool does not. We should add that capability.