Hi Raihan, You can try somthing like this, see below.
On Sep 19, 2013, at 4:04 AM, Raihan Jamal <[email protected]> wrote: > I am trying to use Apache Avro to serialize one of our Attributes data and I > want to use binary encoding version for that not the JSON version. In this > case, I don't want to serialize to disk or some avro data files. I am > planning to write Avro binary encoded-data in Cassandra column family. > > Below is the code so far I have- I am not sure how to start encoding into > binary version. > > Schema schema = new > Parser().parse((AvroExample.class.getResourceAsStream("/user.avsc"))); > > GenericRecord record = new GenericData.Record(schema); > record.put("vbs", "99,E,0"); > record.put("eby", "0,E,,,,,,,15"); > record.put("ste", "77;2,0;1,16;3"); > > > // what I am supposed to do here to serialize into binary encoded version > of Avro? > GenericDatumWriter<GenericRecord> writer = new GenericDatumWriter<GenericRecord>(schema); ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); Encoder e = EncoderFactory.get().binaryEncoder(os, null); writer.write(record, e); e.flush(); byte[] byteData = os.toByteArray(); os.close(); > > // then write to Cassandra here. > I don't know anything about cassandra, but I'm pretty sure you can write binary blobs there. -Mika > > Can anyone provide a simple example basis on my code how to do that? And then > I can use that to write into Cassandra column family. > > Thanks. > > > > > Raihan Jamal
