[AVRO-2143] ReflectData should determine inner class names in a different way.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.7
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.0
• Assignee: Doug Cutting
• Reporter: Miguel
• Created: 12/Feb/18 16:12
• Updated: 21/Feb/20 10:45
• Resolved: 22/Feb/18 00:52

Description

I used ReflectData to generate schemas containing inner classes. These classes were named automatically by ReflectData with dollar ('$'), with, for example com.company.avro.House$Type. Nevertheless @AvroAlias does not support aliases containing '$' in names. In particulr, it fails in validateName in Schema core class. The failure is correct given that AVRO name specs does notinclude the '$' symbol.

I suppose that ReflectData should, for example, generate inner class names in a different way, such as replacing '$' by dots ('.'), or it should fail.

And a detail: Although I cannot add aliases with '$', I can still encode and decode such objects and inner classes using that schema.

I think that it newer versions it is also happening.
 

Issue Links

• relates to: AVRO-2659 [JAVA] Some full names are not correctly validated.
• relates to: AVRO-2757 ReflectData still generates namespaces with dollar signs
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #283