GitHub user gengliangwang opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/21774
[WIP][SPARK-24811][SQL]Avro: add new function from_avro and to_avro ## What changes were proposed in this pull request? Add a new function from_avro for parsing a binary column of avro format and converting it into its corresponding catalyst value. Add a new function to_avro for converting a column into binary of avro format with the specified schema. This PR is in progress. Will add test cases. ## How was this patch tested? You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/gengliangwang/spark from_and_to_avro Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/21774.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #21774 ---- commit fd7ad1dfb238925cf5614a2d1a4c973da2c80a0d Author: Gengliang Wang <gengliang.wang@...> Date: 2018-07-15T18:47:29Z add from_avro and to_avro ---- --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org