On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:50:34 +0200, Emmanuel Bernard
<emmanuel(a)hibernate.org> wrote:
There are unforeseen consequences to making Avro an optional
dependency.
By doing that, I must make the SerializerProvider build process lazy or
tolerant at Runtime if Avro is not here.
The problem with this approach is that if a user forgets to add Avro as
a dependency, his system will fail the first time a message ought to be
(de)serialized *at runtime*
Is this
It forces us to introduce an explicit flag to be set y the user to
know
whether or not the SerializationProvider is required
hibernate.search.indexname.serializer required
I find that quite error prone and am inclined to think that leaving Avro
a required dependency is the less of two evils.
Right. That no good option at all. Then I rather have Avro required.
However, this also means that if someone uses an alternative/homegrown
SerializerProvider, he still ends up w/ Avro as well (at least from a
maven point of view)