[AVRO-1950] Better Json serialization for Avro decimal logical types?

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: java
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Zoltan Farkas
• Created: 05/Nov/16 15:22
• Updated: 30/Jun/20 18:05

Description

Currently as I understand decimal logical types are encoded on top of bytes and fixed avro types. This makes them a bit "unnatural" in the json encoding...

I worked around a hack in my fork to naturally encode them into json decimals. A good starting point to look at is in: https://github.com/zolyfarkas/avro/blob/trunk/lang/java/avro/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/io/DecimalEncoder.java

My approach is a bit hacky, so I would be interested in suggestions to have this closer to something we can integrate into avro...

Issue Links

• is related to: AVRO-1582 Json serialization of nullable fields and fields with default values improvement.