[AVRO-3001] JsonEncode Decode support for C#

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.10.0, 1.11.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.12.0, 1.11.2
• Component/s: csharp
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Robert Yokota
• Reporter: Krishnan Unni
• Created: 07/Dec/20 19:56
• Updated: 30/Aug/22 12:12
• Resolved: 30/Aug/22 12:11

Description

The C# library for avro currently supports only the Binary encoding and also with compile time types (Generic support only). As part of a project I am doing I need to validate the avro schema against the incoming json data on the fly without a predefined type (generated class). So basically comparing an avro schema (string/json representation) against a raw json string. It is possible with the Java library since it supports both non generic types and streams as well as json encoding. With C# currently this is not possible. Is there a plan to extend the C# library to provide these features? If yes, is there a timeline? If not is there any alternative to achieve this? 

Issue Links

• relates to: AVRO-3274 Request for C# API to implement a JSON Encoder
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1833