Deserialize avro messages to JSON and preserve field order

[weeco]

Hey, is it possible to deserialize an avro message to a JSON / text format which also preserves the order of the fields as defined in the avro schema? Currently I unmarshal the avro message to an interface{} and then I apply json.Unmarshal() on it which works fine, but the fields are ordered alphabetically rather than in the order as defined in the schema.

[nrwiersma]

Hi,

No. This repo does not handle the text representation at all, it is entirely focused on the binary representation.

[weeco]

@nrwiersma Thanks for the speedy response. Would you accept PRs for such a method that or is this something you don't want to have as part of this library. Unfortunately I don't see a workaround, because the field order information is lost after the unmarshal process I believe.

[nrwiersma]

I would accept PRs for this feature, but I would put it in a json package to not pollute the main codebase.