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John Karp updated AVRO-1470:
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Summary: Perl API boolean type misencoded (was: Inconsistent handling of
boolean type)
> Perl API boolean type misencoded
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>
> Key: AVRO-1470
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1470
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: perl
> Reporter: John Karp
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> The boolean serialization code in BinaryEncoder.pm is:
> {noformat}
> $data ? \0x1 : \0x0
> {noformat}
> meaning anything false to perl, such as 0, '0', '', () and undef are encoded
> as zero, and everything else is encoded as one.
> However, the code used in Schema.pm to determine which union branch to use,
> is attempting to check for boolean-ness with:
> {noformat}
> m{yes|no|y|n|t|f|true|false}i
> {noformat}
> meaning only those particular strings are considered booleans, however they
> will all get encoded as '0' by BinaryEncoder.pm.
> I say 'attempts' because its actually matching this regex against the data
> type name $type, which in this context will always be 'boolean', instead of
> of the value $data.
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