The output from GenericRecord.toString in Java is not valid JSON, for
example a record with the schema:

{
  "type": "record",
  "name": "TestRecord",
  "fields" : [
    {"name":"enum_field",
     "type":{"type":"enum",
                 "symbols":["a", "b"],
                 "name":"MyEnumType"}},
  ]
}

Should be output as
{"enum_field":"a"}
but is output as
{"emum_field":a}

The later is not really JSON. I saw this on 1.4 but I think it exists
on trunk too.

Is this a known issue? I think the fix is just to add another special
case in GenericData.toString()...

-Jay

On 12/15/2010 01:13 PM, Jay Kreps wrote:
> Is this a known issue? I think the fix is just to add another special
> case in GenericData.toString()...

This does look like a bug and I don't think there's an issue for it in
Jira.  Can you please file one?

Arguably GenericData.Record#toString() and GenericData.Array#toString()
should be implemented with JsonEncoder.

Doug