GitHub user echauchot opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/3950

     [BEAM-2993] AvroIO.write without specifying a schema

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    This PR adds the ability to use `AvroIO.write()` and related methods 
without specifying a schema. 
    The schema is determined at the first call of `AvroSink.write()`: the 
`DataFileWriter` is lazy initialized (at first write) once we have the value to 
get the schema from.  
    This PR also makes the schema optional in `ConstantAvroDestination` and 
depreciate write methods that take schema as parameter. Tell me if I'm missing 
something that prevents deprecation of these methods.
    
    To use `AvoIO.write()` with no schema, all the elements of the input 
PCollection must have the same schema, but it is the same with current 
AvroIO.write(schema) implementation because this schema instance is passed to 
the `TypedWrite` then to the `ConstantAvroDestination` that is used in 
`AvroSink`. Please tell me if I'm missing something here.
    
    My only concern is with empty bundles, `AvroSink.write()` will not be 
called resulting in the `DataFileWriter` not being initialized.  
    
    Please merge the PR bellow before this one because it is used as a base for 
the tests
    https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/3948
    
    R: @jkff 
    R: @reuvenlax 
    CC: @lukecwik 


You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:

    $ git pull https://github.com/echauchot/beam AvroIOWriteSchemaLess2

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

    https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/3950.patch

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    This closes #3950
    
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commit 43ef4d42d7d224b1997278832ec645bccb945792
Author: Etienne Chauchot <echauc...@gmail.com>
Date:   2017-10-05T09:45:12Z

    [BEAM-3019] Make AvroIOWriteTransformTest more generic
    
    make runTestWrite() more generic to be able to use GenericRecord[] as input 
for writeGenericRecords test in place of AvroGeneratedUser
    make readAvroFile() generic to be able to read GenericRecords using 
GenericDatumReader for writeGenericRecords test

commit 84074e36085d76f569c89d4a29a647fc40b22531
Author: Etienne Chauchot <echauc...@gmail.com>
Date:   2017-10-02T15:08:55Z

    [BEAM-2993] AvroIO.write without specifying a schema
    
    Lazy init (at first write) of the dataFileWriter once we have the value to 
get the schema from.
    Make schema optional in ConstantAvroDestination and depreciate write 
methods that take schema as parameter
    Cleaning

commit d19c2cb3538e5981e8138522d0c2138b455dec46
Author: Etienne Chauchot <echauc...@gmail.com>
Date:   2017-10-05T12:08:04Z

    Add tests of the schema less write methods
    Cleaning

commit da95342353bd191c55d6d7768d4c052c531b8cf1
Author: Etienne Chauchot <echauc...@gmail.com>
Date:   2017-10-05T12:43:29Z

    Fixups

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