Hi,
I don't quite understand what are you trying to do. If you need to read items
from an array and the array size is 0, there isn't anything to read. No need to
get schema either in my opinion. If you really need to check if a field exists
in schema, you should be able to use this
if (avro_schema_record_field_get_index(schema, "avro_record_var_1") == -1)
// No field called avro_record_var_1
You might first need to get subschemas or something…
-Mika
On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:20 PM, Mahesh V <[email protected]> wrote:
> Quick question.
> How do I read the schema of an empty array?
>
> for e.g if my schema look like whats shown below, then given a fieldname e.g.
> array_record_var_1,
> how do I check if the field exists inside the array , even if the array is
> empty.
>
> the below snippet of code works fine if the array has at least one element.
> if the array is not populated, the avro_value_get_size returns 0 and the code
> does not enter the for loop
>
> if(type == AVRO_ARRAY ) {
> avro_value_get_size(&field, &array_count);
> printf(" array number of elements = %d \n", array_count);
> for(j = 0; j < array_count; j++) {
> avro_value_get_by_index(&field, j, &subfield, &name),
> printf(" field name is : %s , type =", name);
> type = avro_value_get_type(&subfield);
> print_type(type);
> printf("\n");
> if(type == AVRO_RECORD) {
> avro_value_get_size(&subfield, &rec_count);
> printf(" record number of elements = %d \n",
> rec_count);
> for(k = 0; k < rec_count; k++) {
> avro_value_get_by_index(&subfield, k, &subrec,
> &name),
> printf(" field name is : %s , type =", name);
> type = avro_value_get_type(&subrec);
> print_type(type);
> printf("\n");
> }
> }
> }
> }
>
> > > char *some_schema =
> > > "{"
> > > "\"type\":\"record\", \"name\" : \"some_schema\", \"fields\": [ "
> > > "{ \"name\" : \"some_var_a\" , \"type\" : \"int\" },"
> > > "{"
> > > "\"name\" : \"some_ip\", \"type\" : {"
> > > "\"type\":\"record\", \"name\" : \"some_ip\", \"fields\" : [ "
> > > " { \"name\" : \"ip_version\", \"type\" : \"int\" },"
> > > " { \"name\" : \"ip_v4\", \"type\" : \"long\" },"
> > > " { \"name\" : \"ip_v6\", \"type\" : \"string\" }"
> > > "]}},"
> > > "{ \"name\" : \"some_array\" , \"type\" : "
> > > " { \"type\":\"array\", \"items\": "
> > > "{"
> > > "\"type\":\"record\", \"name\" : \"array_record_1\", \"fields\": [ "
> > > "{ \"name\" : \"array_record_var_1\" , \"type\" : \"int\" },"
> > > "{ \"name\" : \"array_record_var_2\" , \"type\" : \"boolean\" } "
> > > "]"
> > > "}"
>
>
>
>
