[AVRO-1470] Perl API boolean type misencoded

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.7
• Component/s: perl

Release Note

Perl API: Fix encoding of boolean type
Perl API: Fix boolean compatibility test in unions

• Assignee: John Karp
• Reporter: John Karp
• Created: 27/Feb/14 23:00
• Updated: 24/Jul/14 20:16
• Resolved: 11/Jun/14 19:48

Description

The boolean serialization is incorrect, as these new unit tests would indicate:

primitive_ok boolean => 0, "\x0";
primitive_ok boolean => 1, "\x1";

When run they print:

#   Failed test 'primitive boolean encoded correctly'
#   at t/02_bin_encode.t line 40.
#          got: '30'
#     expected: '00'

#   Failed test 'primitive boolean encoded correctly'
#   at t/02_bin_encode.t line 40.
#          got: '31'
#     expected: '01'

Secondly, when evaluating whether a 'boolean' branch should be taken in a union, the check for boolean-ness of the data is being done incorrectly, matching a regular expression against the wrong variable.

Issue Links

• is cloned by: AVRO-1521 Inconsistent behavior of Perl API with 'boolean' type