[AVRO-3434] .NET/#C: Support LogicalSchema for ReflectReader/Writer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.12.0, 1.11.2
• Component/s: csharp
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Khrystyna Popadyuk
• Reporter: Khrystyna Popadyuk
• Created: 07/Mar/22 03:47
• Updated: 14/Dec/22 07:05
• Resolved: 09/Aug/22 07:17

Description

Hi,

I am working on a .NET/C# project that uses Kafka with Avro serialization/deserialization in an event streaming platform.

.NET Apache.Avro nuget package contains two different set of classes for serialization/deserialization:   - SpecificReader, SpecificWriter   - ReflectReader, ReflectWriter. We have chosen ReflectReader/Writer (https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/api/csharp/html/md_src_apache_main_Reflect_README.html) so we can use POCO classes to represent a message.

I noticed that ReflectReader/Writer does not support LogicalSchema. There are default converters and Avro field attribute instead (they are extendable and flexible).

My questions are:

• is it intentional to not support LogicalSchema for ReflectReader/Writer?
• does it mean that we should not mix services that use LogicalSchema (third party or just written on Java, Python or other languages) with ones that use ReflectReader/Writer?  

 

Thanks,

Khrystyna

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1718