[AVRO-668] Java: Streamline writing of Strings for Encoders and GenericDatumWriter

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.1
• Component/s: java
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Scott Carey
• Reporter: Scott Carey
• Created: 16/Sep/10 05:46
• Updated: 14/Oct/10 19:06
• Resolved: 21/Sep/10 19:24

Description

We can streamline writing of strings to minimize object creation during writes.

We can avoid converting a String into Utf8 for Json output, and for Binary output we can avoid a Utf8 (but still create a byte[]).