[AVRO-965] Enhance the IDL parser to allow properties for protocols and messages

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.2
• Component/s: java
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: George Fletcher
• Reporter: George Fletcher
• Created: 29/Nov/11 20:33
• Updated: 15/Feb/12 00:46
• Resolved: 09/Dec/11 20:41

Description

Enhance the IDL parser to support arbitrary properties for protocol and message types. This will allow for attaching metadata to a protocol or message and can be used for versioning and in some cases language annotations.

This was partly discussed as part of JIRA ticket 886
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-886