[GORA-309] Align data object definition with Avro 1.7.X specification

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.0
• Component/s: gora-compiler, gora-core
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Lewis John McGibbney
• Created: 25/Mar/14 14:57
• Updated: 02/May/19 09:09

Description

Right now in Avro 1.7.6 we can add data to our data bean(s) as follows[0].

User user1 = new User();
user1.setName("Alyssa");
user1.setFavoriteNumber(256);
// Leave favorite color null

// Alternate constructor
User user2 = new User("Ben", 7, "red");

// Construct via builder
User user3 = User.newBuilder()
.setName("Charlie")
.setFavoriteColor("blue")
.setFavoriteNumber(null)
.build();

In current gora-compiler code we DO NOT shadow this behavior. This issue should enable the flexibility of populating objects as shown in the three use cases above.

[0] http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/gettingstartedjava.html#Creating+Users