[AVRO-3763] [Rust] Improve Refs workflow

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.11.1
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Fedor Telnov
• Created: 29/May/23 14:41
• Updated: 30/May/23 07:06
• Resolved: 30/May/23 07:06

Description

Working with Refs should be somehow improved. Currently the only "normal" way(AFAIK) to work with them is to build a record, add a field with general type and then in the same record use this type. But let's say I want to reference type that belongs to completely different Schema. How can I do it currently? Maybe I'm missing associated workflow, correct me if I'm wrong.

 

What I really want is to somehow link related schemas(like through Vec<Schema> or something like that) and be able to`value.validate` and `value.resolve` on that set of schemas.

 

If it is not possible, that should be somehow reworked, because working with multiple schemas and refs is almost a complete pain currently.

Issue Links

• duplicates: AVRO-3683 Rust Writer, Reader can't use Schemas with dependencies in other Schemas. i.e. The output of Schema::parse_list