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_r255559248
########## File path: kafka-handler/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/kafka/KafkaSerDe.java ########## @@ -133,12 +134,24 @@ Preconditions.checkArgument(!schemaFromProperty.isEmpty(), "Avro Schema is empty Can not go further"); Schema schema = AvroSerdeUtils.getSchemaFor(schemaFromProperty); LOG.debug("Building Avro Reader with schema {}", schemaFromProperty); - bytesConverter = new AvroBytesConverter(schema); + bytesConverter = getByteConverterForAvroDelegate(schema, tbl); } else { bytesConverter = new BytesWritableConverter(); } } + BytesConverter getByteConverterForAvroDelegate(Schema schema, Properties tbl) { + String avroByteConverterType = tbl.getProperty(AvroSerdeUtils.AvroTableProperties.AVRO_SERDE_TYPE + .getPropName(), "none"); + int avroSkipBytes = Integer.getInteger(tbl.getProperty(AvroSerdeUtils.AvroTableProperties.AVRO_SERDE_SKIP_BYTES + .getPropName(), "5")); + switch ( avroByteConverterType ) { + case "confluent" : return new AvroSkipBytesConverter(schema, 5); + case "skip" : return new AvroSkipBytesConverter(schema, avroSkipBytes); + default : return new AvroBytesConverter(schema); Review comment: Would it be better if this were an enum rather than a string comparison? ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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