I often find myself manipulating record schemas or creating new ones from
the fields of existing ones in Java.

Now at first i just tried to re-use a field of an existing record schema in
a new record schema, but no luck: i ran into the "Field already used"
runtime exception. Apparently a field is aware of its position and does not
like to be re-used because of that. For the same reason i assume
Field.clone() or something like that will be of no use either.

I could create a copy myself using the Field constructor, however that way
i lose the aliases and props. In avro 1.5.4 there is no way to get to these
either.

Any suggestions? Thanks

On 02/03/2012 01:57 PM, Koert Kuipers wrote:
> I could create a copy myself using the Field constructor, however that
> way i lose the aliases and props. In avro 1.5.4 there is no way to get
> to these either.

In Avro 1.6 there's Field#getProps() method but there's no getAliases().

Please file a bug, asking for this.

Thanks,

Doug

ok i will do thanks

On Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Doug Cutting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 02/03/2012 01:57 PM, Koert Kuipers wrote:
> > I could create a copy myself using the Field constructor, however that
> > way i lose the aliases and props. In avro 1.5.4 there is no way to get
> > to these either.
>
> In Avro 1.6 there's Field#getProps() method but there's no getAliases().
>
> Please file a bug, asking for this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Doug
>