[AVRO-2496] Report JSON path for schema and protocol parsing exceptions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.9.1
• Component/s: csharp
• Release Note: Report JSON path for schema and protocol parsing exceptions in C# bindings
• Assignee: Patrick Farry
• Reporter: Patrick Farry
• Created: 01/Aug/19 18:27
• Updated: 07/Feb/20 09:58
• Resolved: 10/Aug/19 17:24

Description

In the csharp library, if there is an exception parsing a schema then we get a message with the exception details but no indication of where the error was in the schema's json. 

I have updated the parser to catch these exceptions and rethrow a new exception with the JSON path to the error and the original exception. This requires an update of the NewtonSoft json.net package (current version is 3). Version 10.3 is about 2 years old and has the most downloads of any recent release. Suggest going to this one.

I if people agree this is a good idea I can put in a PR.

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: AVRO-2416 Schema parser error reporting
• is related to: AVRO-2252 I'd like to improve Avro .NET (C#) library (many points)
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #600