[AVRO-909] change generated getter methods for string fields to return java.lang.String instead of Utf8

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: java
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Doug Cutting
• Created: 05/Oct/11 20:52
• Updated: 07/Oct/11 20:23
• Resolved: 07/Oct/11 19:28

Description

A field X of type string might generate:

public CharSequence x;                // for back compatibility
public void setX(String s) {
  if (x instanceof Utf8)
    x.set(s);
  else
    x = new Utf8(s);
}
public String getX() { return x.toString(); }

The accessor methods have not yet been released, so this would be a compatible change in 1.6. Applications that wished to use Utf8 directly for performance could still use the field directly. Utf8 could be improved to lazily convert between byte[] and String representations.