[AVRO-3036] add schema matching for bytes decimal logical type in Ruby

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.10.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.0
• Component/s: ruby

Release Note

- Added schema matching for decimal logical types in Ruby implementation.
- Added schema support for fixed decimal logical types in Ruby implementation. Encoding/decoding is not yet implement for fixed decimal logical types.

• Assignee: Tim Perkins
• Reporter: Tim Perkins
• Created: 06/Feb/21 20:42
• Updated: 08/May/21 11:49
• Resolved: 08/May/21 11:49

Description

The Avro specification contains the following line:

For the purposes of schema resolution, two schemas that are decimal logical types match if their scales and precisions match.

The Avro Ruby implementation only parses decimal logical types using a bytes schema.

The need for matching support for bytes decimal logical types in Ruby was identified here: https://github.com/apache/avro/pull/918