Hello,
I'm trying to serialize json to avro and back also I'm using fields having decimal logical type, so I'd like to have possibility to provide json with normal numbers for serializer and receive equal json from deserializer. And I was hoping that Conversions.DecimalConversion() will help me with that, but I still receive bytecodes from deserializer and serializer doesn't accept numbers. What am I doing wrong? The code is: public static byte[] jsonToAvro(String json, String schemaStr) throws IOException { InputStream input = null; GenericDatumWriter<GenericRecord> writer = null; Encoder encoder = null; ByteArrayOutputStream output = null; try { final GenericData genericData = new GenericData(); genericData.addLogicalTypeConversion(new Conversions.DecimalConversion()); Schema schema = new Schema.Parser().parse(schemaStr); DatumReader<GenericRecord> reader = new GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord>(schema, schema, genericData); input = new ByteArrayInputStream(json.getBytes()); output = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); DataInputStream din = new DataInputStream(input); writer = new GenericDatumWriter<GenericRecord>(schema, genericData); Decoder decoder = DecoderFactory.get().jsonDecoder(schema, din); encoder = EncoderFactory.get().binaryEncoder(output, null); GenericRecord datum; while (true) { try { datum = reader.read(null, decoder); } catch (EOFException eofe) { break; } writer.write(datum, encoder); } encoder.flush(); return output.toByteArray(); } finally { try { input.close(); } catch (Exception e) { } } } public static String avroToJson(byte[] avro, String schemaStr) throws IOException { boolean pretty = false; GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord> reader = null; JsonEncoder encoder = null; ByteArrayOutputStream output = null; try { final GenericData genericData = new GenericData(); genericData.addLogicalTypeConversion(new Conversions.DecimalConversion()); Schema schema = new Schema.Parser().parse(schemaStr); reader = new GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord>(schema, schema, genericData); InputStream input = new ByteArrayInputStream(avro); output = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); DatumWriter<GenericRecord> writer = new GenericDatumWriter<GenericRecord>(schema, genericData); encoder = EncoderFactory.get().jsonEncoder(schema, output, pretty); Decoder decoder = DecoderFactory.get().binaryDecoder(input, null); GenericRecord datum; while (true) { try { datum = reader.read(null, decoder); } catch (EOFException eofe) { break; } writer.write(datum, encoder); } encoder.flush(); output.flush(); return new String(output.toByteArray()); } finally { try { if (output != null) output.close(); } catch (Exception e) { } } } Example data: Schema { "type" : "record", "name" : "example", "namespace" : "myavro", "fields" : [ { "name" : "cost", "type" : { "type" : "bytes", "logicalType" : "decimal", "precision" : 38, "scale" : 10 } }] } Json: { "cost" : 36.47 }