Include OutputFormat for a specified Avro schema that works with Streaming
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Key: AVRO-1067
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1067
Project: Avro
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: java
Affects Versions: 1.6.3
Reporter: Ari Pollak
Priority: Minor
Avro currently includes AvroTextOutputFormat, which will only write an Avro
file with a bytes schema. It would be nice if there were an OutputFormat that
took a JSON string as a value, and a schema defined with
-Davro.output.schema=... and wrote an Avro file based on that.
This has been implemented with TypedBytes in a third-party repository already,
but I'd imagine it would be trivial to make it work with text:
https://github.com/tomslabs/avro-utils/blob/master/src/main/java/com/tomslabs/grid/avro/TextTypedBytesToAvroOutputFormat.java
It would also be nice to just add the functionality into the existing
AvroTextOutputFormat by just checking whether avro.output.schema is defined or
not, but that could break backwards-compatibility.
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