AVRO-1830 [Perl] Support containers without codec #2965
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As the specification on Object Container Files states (emphasis added):
This change makes it so that the Perl implementation does not die when opening a container that does not contain an explicit codec in its metadata.
This change is inspired by one originally submitted in 2016 by SK Liew and tracked in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1830.
Verifying this change
This change added a new test case to
t/04_datafile.t
and will be verified as part of the normal test suite. The test attempts to read data from a manually crafted container that explicitly does not contain a codec. The file was manually confirmed to be readable by utilities likeavrocat
, which shows it to be a valid file outside the specific test case.Documentation
Unfortunately, the Perl library is severely underdocumented, so there is nothing to add this to.