[NIFI-4846] AvroTypeUtil to support more input types for logical decimal conversion

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.0
• Component/s: Extensions
• Assignee: Koji Kawamura
• Reporter: Koji Kawamura
• Created: 06/Feb/18 07:34
• Updated: 08/Feb/18 00:44
• Resolved: 08/Feb/18 00:44

Description

Currently, only double and BigDecimal can be mapped to a logical decimal Avro field. AvroTypeUtil should support String, Integer and Long as well.

Issue Links

• requires: NIFI-4844 AvroRecordSetWriter should be able to convert a double having less scale than intended target Avro schema instead of throwing an AvroTypeException
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #2451