pranavbhandari24 opened a new issue, #25139:
URL: https://github.com/apache/beam/issues/25139

   ### What would you like to happen?
   
   When reading Avro files which contain recursive definitions in its schema, 
AvroIO fails with a StackOverflow error. 
   
   Stack trace - 
   
   `
   java.lang.StackOverflowError\n\tat 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertUnionToGroupType(AvroSchemaConverter.java:251)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertUnion(AvroSchemaConverter.java:246)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:199)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:152)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:260)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertFields(AvroSchemaConverter.java:146)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:180)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:152)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:192)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertUnionToGroupType(AvroSchemaConverter.java:254)\n\tat
 org.apa
 
che.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertUnion(AvroSchemaConverter.java:246)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:199)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:152)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:260)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertFields(AvroSchemaConverter.java:146)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:180)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:152)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertField(AvroSchemaConverter.java:192)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertUnionToGroupType(AvroSchemaConverter.java:254)\n\tat
 
org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroSchemaConverter.convertUnion(AvroSchemaConverter.java:246)\n\tat
 
   `
   
   This seems to be a long standing issue with AvroSchemaConverter -  
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-129.
   
   Ideally, AvroIO would be able to support reading avro files with recursive 
definitions, but this might be a hard ask. Another idea would be to ignore 
recursive fields when reading avro files. At the very least, this should be 
behavior added in the docs. 
   
   
   ### Issue Priority
   
   Priority: 3 (nice-to-have improvement)
   
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