cricket007 commented on a change in pull request #526: HIVE-21218: KafkaSerDe doesn't support topics created via Confluent URL: https://github.com/apache/hive/pull/526#discussion_r254991986
########## File path: kafka-handler/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/kafka/KafkaSerDe.java ########## @@ -369,6 +379,20 @@ private SubStructObjectInspector(StructObjectInspector baseOI, int toIndex) { } } + static class ConfluentAvroBytesConverter extends AvroBytesConverter { + ConfluentAvroBytesConverter(Schema schema) { + super(schema); + } + + @Override + Decoder getDecoder(byte[] value) { + /** + * Confluent 4 magic bytes that represents Schema ID as Integer. These bits are added before value bytes. + */ + return DecoderFactory.get().binaryDecoder(value, 5, value.length - 5, null); Review comment: > About the compatibility, there are several compatibility modes in schema registry. It can be set for each topic and you can set BACKWARD compat Right, but Hive will likely only work properly if the config really is set to backwards, or at the least, the schema provided can read all the data for the offsets that are scanned . > with literally different schemas Maybe if more schema data was exposed, this would be easier to handle? For example, the Avro namespace + top-level record name? ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services