I believe you can just add an alias in the second schema such RecordB is also known as RecordA and the second schema will then work as a reader's schema for records written in the former (RecordA) schema.
Of course your parser must be provided with *both* schemas the one for RecordA as the writer's schema and the one for RecordB as the reader's schema. On Jun 27, 2014, at 5:53 PM, "Arvind Kalyan" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hey folks, How do we handle cases where the reader and writer record schemas have different record names but their fields are in a is-a relationship with slight differences in their fields. For example: { "type": "record", "name": "RecordA", "fields": [ {"name": "a", "type": "string"}, {"name": "b", "type": ["null", "long"]}, {"name": "c", "type": {"type": "array", "items": "string"}} ] } { "type": "record", "name": "RecordB", "fields": [ {"name": "a", "type": "string"} ] } In the above case, what's the best way to use RecordB for reading what was written using RecordA? -- Arvind Kalyan http://www.linkedin.com/in/base16 cell: (408) 761-2030
