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Vincenz Priesnitz updated AVRO-1307:
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Attachment: AVRO-1307.patch
> Add an avro-tool to extract samples from avro files
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> Key: AVRO-1307
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1307
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: java
> Environment: java
> Reporter: Vincenz Priesnitz
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: AVRO-1307.patch
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> It would be nice to have an avro-tool that picks only some records from avro
> files.
>
> I implemented a new avro-tool cat, which takes a list of avro files with
> identical schemas and concatenates them into a single file, with options to
> discard the first n records, to limit the output size and to collect records
> at a certain samplerate.
> This tool allows a quicker peek into large avro files, e.g.:
> {code}
> java -jar avro-tools.jar cat input.avro output.avro --offset 50 --limit 10
> # creates output.avro that contains records
> # 51 to 60 from input.avro.
> {\code}
> {code}
> java -jar avro-tools.jar cat input.avro output.avro --offset 1000 --limit 100
> --samplerate .01
> # samples every hundredth record from input,
> # beginning at the 1000th record and limiting
> # the output to 100 records.
> {\code}
> The tool allows multiple input files or folders, in which case all files
> inside the folder will be used for input.
> {code}
> java -jar avro-tools.jar cat data_folder output.avro --samplerate .01
> # reads all the files from the data folder and
> # writes every 100th record into the output file.
> {\code}
> This tool uses the hadoop FileSystem api to handle files from any supported
> filesystem.
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