I have a protocol schema hello.avpr
{ ....
types: {
{ name : input_msg , type: record : fields [
{ name: date , type int },
{ name :msg, type: string}
]
}
}
}
now if I need to serialize the record "input_msg", I'm going to need its
schema,
so I'd need to pass a schema obj to DataFileWriter. but how can I parse the
schema out from schema file?
the schema for "input_msg" is not a standalone file.
I would like a way to write the type of "input_msg" in a standalone file,
and then reference/include that from my hello.avpr.
is this possible?
also btw, for an avro-generate object class, would it be better to make the
getSchema() method static?
that way I can get its schema without creating an actual obj
maybe this is not a big issue, we can simply create some hack scripts to
paste together individual files, i.e. creating our own
"include" macro, but that's kind of kludgy
thanks
Yang
