[AVRO-1918] Improve logical type documentation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0, 1.8.2
• Component/s: java
• Assignee: Gabor Szadovszky
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 16/Sep/16 20:17
• Updated: 09/Apr/17 13:49
• Resolved: 27/Sep/16 15:18

Description

AVRO-1684 added support for logical types.

It would be good to add to the IDL documentation some examples of how logical types can be used from IDL.

We should also update the org.apache.avro.specific documentation indicating the now pre-defined logical type mappings.

Issue Links

• is related to: AVRO-1812 IDL compiler doesn't support logical types
• relates to: AVRO-2019 Improve documentation for logical type annotations in IDL
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #129