Github user tillrohrmann commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/6083#discussion_r195469740
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flink-end-to-end-tests/flink-confluent-schema-registry/src/main/java/AvroDeserializationConfluentSchema.java
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+
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.serialization.DeserializationSchema;
+import org.apache.flink.api.common.typeinfo.TypeInformation;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import io.confluent.kafka.schemaregistry.client.CachedSchemaRegistryClient;
+import io.confluent.kafka.schemaregistry.client.SchemaRegistryClient;
+import io.confluent.kafka.serializers.AbstractKafkaAvroSerDeConfig;
+import io.confluent.kafka.serializers.KafkaAvroDecoder;
+import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData;
+import tech.allegro.schema.json2avro.converter.JsonAvroConverter;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+/**
+ * The deserialization schema for the Avro type.
+ */
+public class AvroDeserializationConfluentSchema<T> implements
DeserializationSchema<T> {
+
+ private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
+
+ private Class<T> avroType;
+ private final String schemaRegistryUrl;
+ private final int identityMapCapacity;
+ private KafkaAvroDecoder kafkaAvroDecoder;
+
+ private ObjectMapper mapper;
+
+ private JsonAvroConverter jsonAvroConverter;
+
+ public AvroDeserializationConfluentSchema(Class<T> avroType, String
schemaRegistyUrl) {
+ this(avroType, schemaRegistyUrl,
AbstractKafkaAvroSerDeConfig.MAX_SCHEMAS_PER_SUBJECT_DEFAULT);
+ }
+
+ public AvroDeserializationConfluentSchema(Class<T> avroType, String
schemaRegistryUrl, int identityMapCapacity) {
+ this.avroType = avroType;
+ this.schemaRegistryUrl = schemaRegistryUrl;
+ this.identityMapCapacity = identityMapCapacity;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public T deserialize(byte[] message) throws IOException {
+ if (kafkaAvroDecoder == null) {
+ SchemaRegistryClient schemaRegistryClient = new
CachedSchemaRegistryClient(this.schemaRegistryUrl, this.identityMapCapacity);
+ this.kafkaAvroDecoder = new
KafkaAvroDecoder(schemaRegistryClient);
--- End diff --
Why do we use the `KafkaAvroDecoder` instead of the `KafkaAvroDeserializer`?
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