Questions about the future scope of this library

[gabrielnau]

Hi,

I was unfortunately working on a fork of node-avro-io these days to make it work in the browser.

My primary goal was to support long numbers. The best solution I've found to do so is to use https://github.com/dcodeIO/Long.js. Would you (or did you) consider supporting long numbers, using int64-native for node and long.js (or another one) for the browser ?

At a higher level, is the work on this library supported by Linkedin ? If so I would expect this lib to become the de facto standard Avro javascript implementation.

Unrelated question, I'm curious about the use of Avro in the browser at Linkedin: is it already in production ? Are browser generated events used "as it" later on in Samza ?

Thanks

[mtth]

Hey!

Adding long support is definitely something I'm considering; I'm still thinking about how best to do so. Using an external library such as the ones you mention is an option, but I'd rather not tie avsc to any particular implementation (especially since it'll likely be two, one for node, and one for browsers). One other possibility would be to provide hooks (as an option to avsc.parse), letting you choose the best library for each use-case.

About your other questions, it's too early to tell :).

[mtth]

Created a more specific issue for long support: #4. Feel free to comment there if you have any suggestions or use-cases in mind.