I have logged https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-839 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CALCITE-839> for this task.

> On Aug 10, 2015, at 8:27 PM, Josh Elser <josh.elser@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Julian Hyde wrote:
>> If my understand is correct, this decision is an easy one to make, because whatever we choose, we still comply with the specification.
>> 
>> Avatica specifies its API at two levels: (1) the Java API (Meta), (2) the JSON requests/responses going over the wire.
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>> I would accept any transport that complies with both of those levels. In principle we could write a JSON-over-HTTP-marshalled-via-Jackson transport, specifying the mappings elsewhere than in the Meta classes, and someone else could use another transport.
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> Assuming by "specifying the mappings elsewhere" you mean "by a means other than POJOs", yes, I'd agree. I feel like the POJOs are bound to eventually cause troubles across versions (as it's very easy to accidentally make some change that breaks something you forgot you did before).
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> Any serialization library isn't foolproof obviously, but they are certainly much easier to work around than doing it all by hand.
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>> Is it feasible to achieve this?
>> 
>> Julian
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