Given example schema contains a field which is union of null and string,

Schema
------

```
    {
  "type":"record",
  "name":"DataFlowEntity",
  "namespace":"org.sdf.manage.commons.server",
  "fields":
  [
    {"name":"dataTypeGroupName","type":["null","string"]},
    {"name":"dataTypeName","type":"string"},
    {"name":"dataSchemaVersion","type":"string"}
  ]
}

```

I want to convert following json object,

Object
------

```
{
  "dataTypeGroupName": "dg_1",
  "dataTypeName": "dt_1",
  "dataSchemaVersion": "1"
}

```

into an avro object corresponding to above schema.
I tried with Avro's JsonDecoder with code snppet described below,

```
    String dataFlowEntity = "{\"dataTypeGroupName\": \"dg_1\", \"dataTypeName\": \"dt_1\", \"dataSchemaVersion\": \"1\"}";
    Schema schema = DataFlowEntity.SCHEMA$;
    InputStream inputStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(dataFlowEntity.getBytes());
    DataInputStream dInputStream = new DataInputStream(inputStream);
    Decoder decoder = DecoderFactory.get().jsonDecoder(schema, dInputStream);
    DatumReader<DataFlowEntity> datumReader = new GenericDatumReader<DataFlowEntity>(schema);
    DataFlowEntity dataFlowEntityObject = DataFlowEntity.newBuilder().build();
    dataFlowEntityObject = datumReader.read(null, decoder);

```

It fails with exception,

```
threw exception [org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException: org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException: Field dataTypeGroupName type:UNION pos:0 not set and has no default value] with root cause
org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException: Field dataTypeGroupName type:UNION pos:0 not set and has no default value
  at org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData.getDefaultValue(GenericData.java:874)
  at org.apache.avro.data.RecordBuilderBase.defaultValue(RecordBuilderBase.java:135)

```