Hello, in the Pulsar project we use a shaded version of Avro, that is, we package Avro in a uber Java for the Pulsar client by renaming all the classes from org.apache.avro to org.apache.pulsar.shaded.org.apache.avro.
For this reason users of the Pulsar client cannot generate the Avro classes using the Maven plugin because the generated classes expect Avro classes with the canonical package name. For the sake of completeness: you could use a version of the Pulsar client without the shaded version of Avro , but that's not always the case because in that case the Pulsar client does not shade all of the other third party dependencies and it often clashes with other third party libraries. My question is: Is it possible to tell the Maven plugin to use a different package name for Avro ? My understanding is that we are using a fixed Velocity template https://github.com/apache/avro/blob/44737386cb17a359515f068e7fe9caa0f7bfff70/lang/java/compiler/src/main/velocity/org/apache/avro/compiler/specific/templates/java/classic/record.vm#L22 I would be happy to contribute a patch following your guide if there is no way to achieve that without code changes. Best regards Enrico Olivelli
