[AVRO-1533] permit promotions between string and bytes

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.7
• Component/s: java
• Assignee: Doug Cutting
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 27/Jun/14 18:20
• Updated: 24/Jul/14 20:16
• Resolved: 03/Jul/14 18:22

Description

Avro strings are a subset of bytes, so promoting from string to bytes is lossless and should be possible. Promotion from bytes to strings may cause problems, as not all byte strings are valid UTF8, but it also might be useful.