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Achilleus
Achilleus

Reputation: 1944

Kafka schema evolution

Is the schema backward compatible when we change the namespace of the schema and evolve it? The Landoop UI says its backward compatible when we change the namespace to a new one but could not find this in Avro's rules

Ex: Old schema "namespace":"com.xxx.yyy.zzz.a" Evolved schema "namespace":"com.abc.xxx.yyy.zzz.a"

Upvotes: 0

Views: 292

Answers (1)

Antonios Chalkiopoulos
Antonios Chalkiopoulos

Reputation: 868

"Namespace" similar to "doc", is an optional string that qualifies the name;

Thus by the specification I speculate that it's usage is mostly decorative/descriptive, and evolutions rules are ok with changes in descriptive fields (i.e. the 'doc' field).

It does affect things, i.e. if you are using the schema to generate the classes, the namespace will be affected, but in terms of old or future consumers it should not really affect them. please correct me if the above is not accurate

Upvotes: 2

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