Yes, as Roger suggests, in Avro this is done by specifying a reader schema that contains a subset of the fields written.
E.g., https://icircuit.net/avro-schema-projection/1446 Doug On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 8:09 AM roger peppe <rogpe...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you're using a custom codec, this is potentially possible if you're > reading only a single record, not a sequence of records. I've been > considering implementing this as an optimisation. However, I don't think > it's possible to skip entirely when reading a sequence of records because > there's no record header that encodes the record length. > > However if you read into a schema that only has F1, none of the other > fields will be materialised, only read and discarded, AIUI (although I'm > not familiar with the Java codec so it might work differently). > > cheers, rog. > > > On Tue, 31 Mar 2020, 15:59 JohnGa, <pka...@kubikconcepts.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> I am using BinaryDecoder with a compiled schema. Let's say there are 10 >> fields: F1, F2,....F10. After reading F1, I want to skip to the end of >> the >> record without decoding the fields from F2 to F10. Is there a way to >> accomplish this in Avro? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: >> http://apache-avro.679487.n3.nabble.com/Avro-Users-f679479.html >> >
