On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 1:24 AM, Arunasalam G <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Our scenario is we have stored the data with schema added to it. > > I would like to make it more simple without bringing the Hbase into > consideration. > > We have an Avro data object which has both data and schema and is > serialized to Byte Array. > Is there any way to retrieve the schema from this ByteArray object? > > Lets assume that we don't know what schema is present in the incoming > object. > I could find that for an AVRO data file, its possible to retrieve the > schema from the file and similarly, is there any way for retrieving the > schema from a serialized byte array object? > > It depends entirely on how you serialized the schema + binary into the byte array. Did you use some library or can you briefly describe the method used? -- Sean
