OIC. Yeah, in general the JSON representation is really just for cases where some tool can't handle the binary. Think of it as an escape hatch more than a core

OIC. Yeah, in general the JSON representation is really just for cases where some tool can't handle the binary. Think of it as an escape hatch more than a core feature. If you're using Avro as a way to do JSON, that's definitely a bad choice. That's why I found the notion of Avro as a way to work with JSON documents as really... odd. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222491 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28222491) It's a decent way to manage data transfers (and I continue to argue a much better one that CSV or JSON), but as a "lossless alternate encoding of what's canonically a JSON document", it's a bad fit.