Github user fhueske commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/3663#discussion_r113241221
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flink-connectors/flink-connector-kafka-base/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/streaming/util/serialization/AvroRowDeserializationSchema.java
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+package org.apache.flink.streaming.util.serialization;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.List;
+import org.apache.avro.Schema;
+import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData;
+import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord;
+import org.apache.avro.io.DatumReader;
+import org.apache.avro.io.Decoder;
+import org.apache.avro.io.DecoderFactory;
+import org.apache.avro.reflect.ReflectDatumReader;
+import org.apache.avro.specific.SpecificData;
+import org.apache.avro.specific.SpecificRecord;
+import org.apache.avro.util.Utf8;
+import org.apache.flink.types.Row;
+import org.apache.flink.util.Preconditions;
+
+/**
+ * Deserialization schema from Avro bytes over {@link SpecificRecord} to
{@link Row}.
+ *
+ * Deserializes the <code>byte[]</code> messages into (nested) Flink Rows.
+ *
+ * {@link Utf8} is converted to regular Java Strings.
+ */
+public class AvroRowDeserializationSchema extends
AbstractDeserializationSchema<Row> {
+
+ /**
+ * Schema for deterministic field order.
+ */
+ private final Schema schema;
+
+ /**
+ * Reader that deserializes byte array into a record.
+ */
+ private final DatumReader<GenericRecord> datumReader;
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`GenericRecord` -> `SpecificRecord`
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