[AVRO-2925] No UUID support in IDL compiler.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.10.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.0
• Component/s: java
• Assignee: Anees Mohammed
• Reporter: Anees Mohammed
• Created: 21/Aug/20 09:41
• Updated: 10/Nov/21 09:47
• Resolved: 11/Sep/20 08:36

Description

There is no UUID support in IDL.

 

Trying to compile 

 

 

@namespace("org.apache.avro")
protocol MyProtocol {
 record APlaygroundEvent {
/**
 * Documentation must be provided for each attribute
 */
 decimal(9,2) identifier;

 /**
 * a nullable uuid field 
 */
union { null, uuid } optionalString;
 }
}

 

 

Throws errors

 

Exception in thread "main" org.apache.avro.AvroTypeException: Unable to resolve org.apache.avro.uuid
 at org.apache.avro.compiler.idl.ResolvingVisitor.visitNonTerminal(ResolvingVisitor.java:112)
 at org.apache.avro.compiler.schema.Schemas.visitNonTerminal(Schemas.java:186)
 at org.apache.avro.compiler.schema.Schemas.visit(Schemas.java:146)
 at org.apache.avro.compiler.idl.SchemaResolver.resolve(SchemaResolver.java:99)
 at org.apache.avro.compiler.idl.Idl.CompilationUnit(Idl.java:135)
 at org.apache.avro.tool.IdlTool.run(IdlTool.java:61)
 at org.apache.avro.tool.Main.run(Main.java:67)
 at org.apache.avro.tool.Main.main(Main.java:56)

 

 

Issue Links

• breaks: AVRO-3251 AVDL files containing fields called "uuid" no longer compile.