[AVRO-960] String Const Correctness in Avro-C

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.2
• Component/s: c
• Labels: c const
• Assignee: Douglas Creager
• Reporter: Lucas Martin-King
• Created: 25/Nov/11 04:11
• Updated: 15/Feb/12 00:46
• Resolved: 13/Dec/11 19:45

Description

I notice that avro_value_set_string() takes in a char *, not a const char *, and some of the the lower level functions it uses do take a const char *.

I would presume that the library does not modify user input string data.

Can we fix this by maintaining const char * all the way up to the user API?