linkedin / linkedin/avro-util

getNullableGenericDefaultValue API should fail Map type with null as default value.

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Description

Currently getNullableGenericDefaultValue return a hashmap object for Map type with null as default value. For example:
{
"name": "fieldName",
"type": {"type":"map", "values":"string" },
"doc" : "test.",
"default" : null
}
For this field, the getNullableGenericDefaultValue api returns a HashMap object which shouldn't.

https://github.com/linkedin/avro-util/blob/b6769c3dbbe768148b8dbcfb16affccd7f2ad578/helper/helper-common/src/main/java/com/linkedin/avroutil1/compatibility/SchemaValidator.java#L157
in this place it should also validate if the defaultValue as Map object is empty or not

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Start in helper/helper-common/src/main/java/com/linkedin/avroutil1/compatibility/SchemaValidator.java around line 157 and inspect getNullableGenericDefaultValue for map defaults. Reproduce the schema example from the issue, then verify that a map with a null default is rejected rather than returning a HashMap; the payload does not name a test file.

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