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Sean Busbey commented on AVRO-1534:
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Take a look at [the Java reflection
API|http://avro.apache.org/docs/1.7.6/api/java/org/apache/avro/reflect/package-summary.html].
Getting a schema looks like:
{code}
Schema schema = ReflectData.get().getSchema(T);
{code}
See [the example from Doug on StackOverflow for a working
example|http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11866466/using-apache-avro-reflect].
> Generate shema from a Java object
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>
> Key: AVRO-1534
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-1534
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: java
> Reporter: Moustafa Aboul Atta
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> Instead of having to provide an already compiled schema, there should be the
> ability to generate the schema from a java object.
> That is because in some case, providing the schema is not posssible (e.g:
> the class of that Java Object has some members whose types are external java
> classes in external libraries or simply the Object is too complex).
> Example of how it would be:
> {{Shema schema = new Schema.Parser.parse(T);}}
> Microsoft already implemented this feature in its Avro library for .NET so I
> was surprised that it wasn't already implemented.
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