Gerardo Villeda created AVRO-2484:
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Summary: Support for External Imports in compiled jars
Key: AVRO-2484
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2484
Project: Apache Avro
Issue Type: Improvement
Reporter: Gerardo Villeda
The maven-plugin provides the ability to import avro schemas and reference when
developing complex objects and to promote reuse.
I believe that it would be ideal to support importing schemas that have been
compiled into shared libraries. For instance, in our organization we
standardize a header for each event in a Kafka topic. We would ideally want to
compile the required class, package with the associated schema fragment and
import on many of our projects.
I suppose this could be implemented using a convention like
"classpath:/file.avsc" in the imports. This will also require changes to the
compiler to include the imported class but skip the generation of code as one
would assume the generated class is already available in the referenced jar
file.
NOTE: I tested this approach locally and seems to work. I'd be happy to submit
a Pull Request if this aligns with the overall direction of this tool.
Thanks
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