[AVRO-1879] Make conversions field transient in compiled SpecificRecord

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0, 1.8.2
• Component/s: java
• Assignee: Michael Wong
• Reporter: Michael Wong
• Created: 10/Jul/16 10:39
• Updated: 05/Sep/16 07:04
• Resolved: 04/Sep/16 20:57

Description

Add a transient modifier to the conversions field as such

private final transient org.apache.avro.Conversion<?>[] conversions

This will allow Serializers and type inference systems like Flink's TypeExtractor to not consider the conversions field and not try to serialize it.

Issue Links

• blocks: AVRO-1885 Release 1.8.2
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #107
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #108