Hi, With Avro-874, multiple inter-dependent schema files can be parsed. I've written a patch to the SpecificCompilerTool to allow the same when producing java from multiple schemas that I'd like to contribute for consistency if there's interest. It allows you to pass multiple input files like this:
$ java -cp avro-tools-1.6.0.jar org.apache.avro.tool.Main compile schema input/position.avsc,input/player.avsc tmp/ While I was at it, it seemed useful to parse an entire directory of schema files as well so I implemented this: $ java -cp avro-tools-1.6.0.jar org.apache.avro.tool.Main compile schema input/ tmp/ The latter approach will not work properly for files with dependencies, since the file order probably isn't in reverse dependency order. If that's the case, a combination of files and directories can be used to force an ordering. So if b depends on a and other files depend on either of them you could do this: $ java -cp avro-tools-1.6.0.jar org.apache.avro.tool.Main compile schema input/a.avsc,input/b.avsc,input/ tmp/ Let me know if some or all of this seems useful to contribute. The first example is really the main one that I need. I've done the same for Protocol as well btw. thanks, Bill
