Thanks for the input. I'm guessing then the above problem can only solved with IDL and not AVSC?
On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Lewis John Mcgibbney < [email protected]> wrote: > Hey, > Did you check out the IDL documentation? > http://avro.apache.org/docs/current/idl.html > I had similar data modeling issues a while back and this helped out A LOT. > hth > > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 6:58 PM, Software Dev > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Is there anyway to include the fields of another schema into our schema >> WITHOUT it creating a nested record? >> >> >> { >> "type": "record", >> "name": "Parent", >> "fields" : [ >> { >> "name": "foo", >> "type": "string" >> } >> ] >> } >> >> { >> "type": "record", >> "name": "Child", >> "fields" : [ >> { >> "name": "bar", >> "type": "string" >> }, >> // I dont want it nested like this >> // { >> // "name": "parent", >> // "type": "Parent" >> // } >> ] >> } >> >> So in this example is there a way to have child include both the "bar" >> field as well as "foo" without it nested under parent? >> >> Thanks >> >> > > > -- > *Lewis* >
