Can someone help on this? Is anyone faced similar issue? Thanks, Sivakumar Bhavanari.
On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Siva <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I m new to avro, running into issues if a type is combined with "null", > like ["null","int"] or ["null", "string"]. > > I have a schema like below > > { > "type":"record","namespace":"tutorialspoint", > "name":"empdetails","fields":[ { > "name":"experience", > "type":["null","string"],"default":null > }, > { "name":"age", "type":"int" } > ] > } > > Below is the json dataset. > > {"experience" : "da", "age": 50} > > java -jar avro-tools-1.7.7.jar fromjson --schema-file test.avsc test.json > > test.avro > > If I have "null" value in "experience" column it goes though, but if it > has some string it is giving below error. Similar error with int types as > well (VALUE_NUMBER_INT). > > Exception in thread "main" org.apache.avro.AvroTypeException: Expected > start-union. Got VALUE_STRING > at org.apache.avro.io.JsonDecoder.error(JsonDecoder.java:697) > at org.apache.avro.io.JsonDecoder.readIndex(JsonDecoder.java:441) > at > org.apache.avro.io.ResolvingDecoder.doAction(ResolvingDecoder.java:290) > at org.apache.avro.io.parsing.Parser.advance(Parser.java:88) > > I have columns with strings or nulls in json, is there a work around to > this error without changing the json data? > > Thanks in advance. > > Thanks, > Sivakumar Bhavanari. >
