Description
Similar to AVRO-3666, which introduces multiple schema parsers, I propose to introduce multiple, named, schema formatters.
Names can be of the form <name>[/<variant>], there the variant part is optional.
Initially, the list would be:
- json -> alias for json/pretty
- json/pretty
> pretty{}printed JSON; replaces Schema.toString(true) - json/inline -> single-line JSON; replaces Schema.toString(false)
- canonical -> Parsing Canonical Form (as per spec)
Then, after merging AVRO-3404, we can also add:
- idl -> to write schemata in IDL format, as requested in AVRO-1757