I'm not sure whether I should be asking Parquet people or Avro people about this.
I'm reading a Parquet file via Avro. The Parquet file was produced by Spark. The Avro schema that I generated from the file (by deserializing it as a GenericData record & retrieving its schema) uses "record" types that have no "namespace" value. Therefore, when generating Java classes from the Avro schema in order to deserialize the Parquet file to strongly typed objects, the generated Java classes are created in the default package. As you may know, it's basically impossible to interact with Java classes that are defined in the unnamed package. Has anyone else run into this situation? And is there any way to work around it? It seems like I should be able to specify how the types in the Parquet file should map to a Avro namespace/package name… not only for preventing classes in the unnamed package but also for avoiding class name conflicts. Thanks!
