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Ismaël Mejía reassigned AVRO-2357:
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Assignee: Ivan Greene
> (ReflectData) Support for generic types in protocol definitions
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> Key: AVRO-2357
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2357
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: java
> Reporter: Ivan Greene
> Assignee: Ivan Greene
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 1.9.0
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> For a Java interface extending another interface with type parameters, we may
> resolve actual type parameters and build the protocol definition based upon
> those.
> For example, let's say we have a generic protocol defined by a Java interface:
> {code:java}
> public interface CrudProto<T, I> {
> void persist(T record);
> T fetchById(I id);
> }{code}
> It would be natural to define a set of interfaces that extend this, such as:
> {code:java}
> public interface FooBarRecordProto extends CrudProto<FooBarRecord, String> {}
> public interface OtherRecordProto extends CrudProto<OtherRecord, Long> {}
> {code}
> Calling ReflectData.get().getProtocol(FooBarRecordProto.class) should be able
> to resolve that this protocol deals in FooBarRecords and Strings, and build a
> protocol accordingly.
> Currently, this call will produce an exception stating that a schema for 'T'
> cannot be resolved.
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