FINERACT-2575: replace archived Avro Gradle plugin

[San-43]

Replaces the archived Avro Gradle plugin with eu.eventloopsoftware.avro-gradle-plugin in fineract-avro-schemas.
The migration keeps the current generation flow unchanged:

• Preserves schema preprocessing for bigdecimal
• Keeps the custom Avro templates
• Keeps the existing buildJavaSdk task contract for downstream modules

I also restored enableDecimalLogicalType = true so decimal fields continue to be generated as BigDecimal instead of ByteBuffer.

[Aman-Mittal]

I think to better wait for official release from apache first https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-4223 instead of using beta version

[Aman-Mittal]

I think we better hold this one and this plugin is maintained by a single developer. Which is a huge supply chain risk.
As stated by maintainer in ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-4223

A planned release is discussed here under the name of org.apache.avro

If that gets release. I think we should wait for it and use that instead

[Aman-Mittal]

Also see PR apache/avro#3614

[San-43]

I think to better wait for official release from apache first https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-4223 instead of using beta version

Thank you very much for your review @Aman-Mittal . I agree we should wait for the official Apache release, and hopefully it won’t take long. I found INFRA-27616, so it looks like the plugin is ready and just waiting to be published as org.apache.avro.

[adamsaghy]

I think to better wait for official release from apache first https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-4223 instead of using beta version

Thank you very much for your review @Aman-Mittal . I agree we should wait for the official Apache release, and hopefully it won’t take long. I found INFRA-27616, so it looks like the plugin is ready and just waiting to be published as org.apache.avro.

I am not convinced anyone is working on ot.

Infra ticket is closed with resolution "later".
avro ticket seems abandoned

[Aman-Mittal]

I think to better wait for official release from apache first https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-4223 instead of using beta version

Thank you very much for your review @Aman-Mittal . I agree we should wait for the official Apache release, and hopefully it won’t take long. I found INFRA-27616, so it looks like the plugin is ready and just waiting to be published as org.apache.avro.

I am not convinced anyone is working on ot.

Infra ticket is closed with resolution "later". avro ticket seems abandoned

@adamsaghy Pr is currently being review for merge against Apache Avro repo. If it is urgent to upgrade.I think we should add TODO: comment here to use official Apache plugin instead when it gets release. While i still emphasize that we should wait for it as there is also parent ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3731 in which original maintainer davidmc24 has offered to donated this plugin to ASF which is voted by the avro PMC members.
Or we can open a discussion to dev list too.

[adamsaghy]

I think to better wait for official release from apache first https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-4223 instead of using beta version

Thank you very much for your review @Aman-Mittal . I agree we should wait for the official Apache release, and hopefully it won’t take long. I found INFRA-27616, so it looks like the plugin is ready and just waiting to be published as org.apache.avro.

I am not convinced anyone is working on ot.
Infra ticket is closed with resolution "later". avro ticket seems abandoned

@adamsaghy Pr is currently being review for merge against Apache Avro repo. If it is urgent to upgrade.I think we should add TODO: comment here to use official Apache plugin instead when it gets release. While i still emphasize that we should wait for it as there is also parent ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3731 in which original maintainer davidmc24 has offered to donated this plugin to ASF which is voted by the avro PMC members. Or we can open a discussion to dev list too.

its not urgent to upgrade. i just wanted someone(s) to review the options.

[Aman-Mittal]

I think to better wait for official release from apache first https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-4223 instead of using beta version

Thank you very much for your review @Aman-Mittal . I agree we should wait for the official Apache release, and hopefully it won’t take long. I found INFRA-27616, so it looks like the plugin is ready and just waiting to be published as org.apache.avro.

I am not convinced anyone is working on ot.
Infra ticket is closed with resolution "later". avro ticket seems abandoned

@adamsaghy Pr is currently being review for merge against Apache Avro repo. If it is urgent to upgrade.I think we should add TODO: comment here to use official Apache plugin instead when it gets release. While i still emphasize that we should wait for it as there is also parent ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3731 in which original maintainer davidmc24 has offered to donated this plugin to ASF which is voted by the avro PMC members. Or we can open a discussion to dev list too.

its not urgent to upgrade. i just wanted someone(s) to review the options.

@adamsaghy @San-43 just got a update from apache avro team

See ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3731?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=18071485#comment-18071485

We're currently looking into an Avro release 1.13.0 which will definitely include this plugin. It's possible that the next minor 1.12.x Avro release won't have this feature yet -- if that's the case, we'll stay motivated to do a 1.13.0 ASAP (a much shorter gap than in the past).

[adamsaghy]

I think to better wait for official release from apache first https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-4223 instead of using beta version

Thank you very much for your review @Aman-Mittal . I agree we should wait for the official Apache release, and hopefully it won’t take long. I found INFRA-27616, so it looks like the plugin is ready and just waiting to be published as org.apache.avro.

I am not convinced anyone is working on ot.
Infra ticket is closed with resolution "later". avro ticket seems abandoned

@adamsaghy Pr is currently being review for merge against Apache Avro repo. If it is urgent to upgrade.I think we should add TODO: comment here to use official Apache plugin instead when it gets release. While i still emphasize that we should wait for it as there is also parent ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3731 in which original maintainer davidmc24 has offered to donated this plugin to ASF which is voted by the avro PMC members. Or we can open a discussion to dev list too.

its not urgent to upgrade. i just wanted someone(s) to review the options.

@adamsaghy @San-43 just got a update from apache avro team

See ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3731?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=18071485#comment-18071485

We're currently looking into an Avro release 1.13.0 which will definitely include this plugin. It's possible that the next minor 1.12.x Avro release won't have this feature yet -- if that's the case, we'll stay motivated to do a 1.13.0 ASAP (a much shorter gap than in the past).

Great! Thank you for gathering and sharing these informations! I guess it would be wise from us to wait that release!

[San-43]

I think to better wait for official release from apache first https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-4223 instead of using beta version

Thank you very much for your review @Aman-Mittal . I agree we should wait for the official Apache release, and hopefully it won’t take long. I found INFRA-27616, so it looks like the plugin is ready and just waiting to be published as org.apache.avro.

I am not convinced anyone is working on ot.
Infra ticket is closed with resolution "later". avro ticket seems abandoned

@adamsaghy Pr is currently being review for merge against Apache Avro repo. If it is urgent to upgrade.I think we should add TODO: comment here to use official Apache plugin instead when it gets release. While i still emphasize that we should wait for it as there is also parent ticket https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3731 in which original maintainer davidmc24 has offered to donated this plugin to ASF which is voted by the avro PMC members. Or we can open a discussion to dev list too.

its not urgent to upgrade. i just wanted someone(s) to review the options.

@adamsaghy @San-43 just got a update from apache avro team

See ticket: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-3731?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=18071485#comment-18071485

We're currently looking into an Avro release 1.13.0 which will definitely include this plugin. It's possible that the next minor 1.12.x Avro release won't have this feature yet -- if that's the case, we'll stay motivated to do a 1.13.0 ASAP (a much shorter gap than in the past).

Nice, this looks promising! He also commented on the PR here: apache/avro#3614 (comment)