[AVRO-3441] Automatically register LogicalTypeFactory classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.11.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.11.1
• Component/s: java, logical types
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind
• Reporter: Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind
• Created: 09/Mar/22 11:11
• Updated: 20/Jun/22 16:44
• Resolved: 18/Mar/22 19:20

Description

Manually registering a LogicalTypeFactory is cumbersome, but necessary if creating the factory requires constructor parameters.

For most cases though, a LogicalTypeFactory gets all the information it needs from the schema. This makes it a good candidate for a SPI (using the Java 6 ServiceLoader class). The PR demonstrates that this is quite easy, because the interface already supports registering a LogicalTypeFactory without any additional information.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #1590