[AVRO-2535] Ruby support for enum defaults

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.10.0
• Component/s: ruby
• Assignee: Tim Perkins
• Reporter: Tim Perkins
• Created: 28/Aug/19 11:55
• Updated: 02/Jul/20 12:22
• Resolved: 03/May/20 07:30

Description

Avro v1.9.0 introduced defaults for enum types (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1340).

This issue is to add support for enum defaults to the Ruby implementation.

The current enum handling in the Ruby implementation does not follow the spec. If a writer's symbol is unknown to the reader, then the writer's symbol is still returned. 

I don't plan on breaking that behavior, but if a default is specified for the enum type then that will be returned instead of the unknown writer's symbol.

 

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #628