[AVRO-605] Java: make Utf8 implement CharSequence

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: java
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed
• Assignee: Doug Cutting
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 04/Aug/10 18:22
• Updated: 28/Dec/10 21:10
• Resolved: 10/Aug/10 17:10

Description

If Utf8 implemented CharSequence then interfaces could change to specify CharSequence and accept Utf8 or String interchangeably.

This would be mostly back-compatible, except the method signatures of generated protocols would be different, so implementations would need to be updated.

Issue Links

• relates to: AVRO-720 Generated code for arrays should accept extensions of array content type