Allow hyphen in Json Key Strings

[tarunjoshi-lily]

I am using my Jackson-dataformat-avro jar to parse POJO (which are going to accept deserialized json & I don't control schema of those JSON) and subsequently use those POJO to map to a GenericRecord for Avro. The JSON schema has all bad naming conventions like hyphen and underscore. When I try to set up the AvroSchemaWrapper in this way :

 ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper(new AvroFactory());
        AvroSchemaGenerator gen = new AvroSchemaGenerator();
        mapper.acceptJsonFormatVisitor(Response.class, gen);
        AvroSchema schemaWrapper = gen.getGeneratedSchema();

        return schemaWrapper.getAvroSchema(); 

I get exception while initialization of my Java Job saying :

Caused by: org.apache.avro.SchemaParseException: Illegal character in: User-Agent
at org.apache.avro.Schema.validateName(Schema.java:1561)
at org.apache.avro.Schema.access$400(Schema.java:87)
at org.apache.avro.Schema$Field.(Schema.java:541)
at org.apache.avro.Schema$Field.(Schema.java:580)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.avro.schema.RecordVisitor.schemaFieldForWriter(RecordVisitor.java:189)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.avro.schema.RecordVisitor.optionalProperty(RecordVisitor.java:117)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.depositSchemaProperty(BeanPropertyWriter.java:839)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.acceptJsonFormatVisitor(BeanSerializerBase.java:912)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.avro.schema.RecordVisitor.schemaFieldForWriter(RecordVisitor.java:174)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.avro.schema.RecordVisitor.optionalProperty(RecordVisitor.java:117)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.BeanPropertyWriter.depositSchemaProperty(BeanPropertyWriter.java:839)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.std.BeanSerializerBase.acceptJsonFormatVisitor(BeanSerializerBase.java:912)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ser.DefaultSerializerProvider.acceptJsonFormatVisitor(DefaultSerializerProvider.java:566)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.acceptJsonFormatVisitor(ObjectMapper.java:4438)
at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.acceptJsonFormatVisitor(ObjectMapper.java:4417)
at ai.lily.sample.pipeline.SimpleMapper.generateAvroSchemaFromJacksonPOJO(SimpleMapper.java:99)
at ai.lily.sample.pipeline.SimpleMapper.(SimpleMapper.java:29)

Am I doing something wrong , can i (While extracting Avro Schema ) allow parser to not use @JsonProperty to define Avro schema field names ??

[cowtowncoder]

Jackson requires logical property names to be used to match to Avro schema. But it is possible to both define safe property names with @JsonProperty (ones with no hyphens) and maybe also add @JsonAlias for "bad" names to be understood on input. This would allow sort of conversion.

PropertyNamingStrategy may also be used for some automated transformations: it can be applied on POJOs with @JsonNaming, or configured on ObjectMapper. Not sure if that could help.