Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Tatu Saloranta
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Miguel Verde wrote: > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Tatu Saloranta > wrote: >> >> Not that I wanted to criticize choices, but do they actually allow use >> of JSON as encoding? >> Avro does use JSON for specifying schemas, but I wasn't aware of being >> able to

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Miguel Verde
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Tatu Saloranta wrote: > Not that I wanted to criticize choices, but do they actually allow use > of JSON as encoding? > Avro does use JSON for specifying schemas, but I wasn't aware of being > able to use it for encoding data. > Likewise with Thrift. > Yes, each

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Tatu Saloranta
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Eric Evans wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:00 -0700, Paul Brown wrote: >> At the risk of asking about religion (but with no interest in hearing >> about it), why Avro instead of something like plain-old-JSON over >> HTTP? > > At the risk of having this thread vee

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread B. Todd Burruss
i'll jump in ... why AVRO over Thrift. can you guys point me at a comparison? (i know next to nothing about both of them) On 06/18/2010 03:41 PM, Paul Brown wrote: On Jun 18, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Eric Evans wrote: On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:00 -0700, Paul Brown wrote: At the risk of a

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Brown
On Jun 18, 2010, at 2:12 PM, Eric Evans wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:00 -0700, Paul Brown wrote: >> At the risk of asking about religion (but with no interest in hearing >> about it), why Avro instead of something like plain-old-JSON over >> HTTP? > At the risk of having this thread veer off

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Eric Evans
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 11:00 -0700, Paul Brown wrote: > At the risk of asking about religion (but with no interest in hearing > about it), why Avro instead of something like plain-old-JSON over > HTTP? At the risk of having this thread veer off on a very long tangent... In a nutshell, we need a wa

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Paul Brown
On Jun 18, 2010, at 8:01 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 12:27 +0530, Atul Gosain wrote: >> Is the client API for cassandra available in AVRO. > Significant parts of it, but it is not yet finished. >> If so, any links to examples or some documentation? > There is no samples or docume

Re: AVRO client API

2010-06-18 Thread Eric Evans
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 12:27 +0530, Atul Gosain wrote: > Is the client API for cassandra available in AVRO. Significant parts of it, but it is not yet finished. > If so, any links to examples or some documentation? There is no samples or documentation yet, sorry. > and If so, any comparison betw

AVRO client API

2010-06-17 Thread Atul Gosain
Hi Is the client API for cassandra available in AVRO. If so, any links to examples or some documentation ? and If so, any comparison between Thrift and Avro API's to determine the better of them ? Thanks Atul