Incompatibility between C and Java schema parsing

[Thiago Cangussu de Castro Gomes]

Hi,

The following schema is giving a parse error using the Java libraries, but
in the C implementation it is working fine:

[
  {"type": "record", "name": "UserDefinedType", "fields": [{"name":
"somefield", "type": "long"}]},
  {"type": "array", "items": [{"type": "UserDefinedType"}] }
]

The error:

org.apache.avro.SchemaParseException: Type not supported: UserDefinedType

This version works fine in the Java implementation:

[
  {"type": "record", "name": "UserDefinedType", "fields": [{"name":
"somefield", "type": "long"}]},
  {"type": "array", "items": ["UserDefinedType"] }
]

It is my understanding from the specs that either versions should be parsed
without erros:

A JSON string, naming a defined type.
A JSON object, of the form:

{"type": "typeName" ...attributes...}


Thanks,

Thiago