Enum AvroCompatibilityVerdict
Whether data written with one schema can be read with another (AvroSchemaCompatibility): a fact about the schemas, which options don't change. The values are ordered from best to worst, and a report's verdict is the worst of its pairs'.
public enum AvroCompatibilityVerdict
Fields
Compatible = 0Every value written with the writer's schema can be read with the reader's.
Incompatible = 2The reader cannot be created, or can read no value of the writer's schema.
Partial = 1The reader can be created, but some values cannot be read: an enum symbol the reader lacks (and has no default for), or a writer union branch with no counterpart. The issues name them. Java's
SchemaCompatibilityand schema registries call this incompatible.