Details
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Improvement
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Status: Open
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Minor
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Resolution: Unresolved
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1.7.7, 1.8.2
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Description
It is stated in the Avro spec that int and long values are promotable to floats and doubles.
However, numeric promotions to floats are lossy (losing precision), as is long promotion to double.
It is suggested that the SchemaCompatibility class is updated to be able to flag conversions that have the possibility to be lossy as errors. The attached patch does just that, by adding a new boolean flag (allowDataLoss), preserving backwards compatibility by defaulting this flag to true.
Testcases illustrating the problem has been added to the unit test class TestReadingWritingDataInEvolvedSchemas
