Hello Oscar, Worked perfectly. Thank you!
I had tried idl2schemata, but didn't realize I needed to pass an output directory. Tried telling it to write the output to a file, but that obviously didn't work. Regards, Eric On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 10:00 AM Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind < os...@westravanholthe.nl> wrote: > Hi Eric, > > You did everything right, except that you ended up with a protocol file. > > Please use the tool idl2schemata instead, to generate schema file(s): > > java -jar avro-tools.jar idl2schemata src/test/idl/input/namespaces.avdl > /tmp/ > > This will create a .avsc file per schema that you can use. > > Kind regards, > Oscar > > -- > Oscar Westra van Holthe - Kind <os...@westravanholthe.nl> > > Op vr 22 apr. 2022 14:27 schreef Eric Gorr <eric.g...@twosixtech.com>: > >> What I would like to be able to do is take an .avdl file and parse it >> into python. I would like to make use of the information from within >> python. >> >> According to the documentation, Apache's python package does not handle >> .avdl files. I need to use their `avro-tools` to convert the .avdl file >> into something it does know how to parse. >> >> According to the documentation at >> https://avro.apache.org/docs/current/idl.html, I can convert a .avdl >> file into a .avpr file with the following command: >> >> > java -jar avro-tools.jar idl src/test/idl/input/namespaces.avdl >> /tmp/namespaces.avpr >> >> I ran through my .avdl file through Avro-tools, and it produced an .avpr >> file. >> >> What is unclear is how I can use the python package to interpret this >> data. I tried something simple... >> >> > schema = avro.schema.parse(open("my.avpr", "rb").read()) >> >> but that generates the error: >> >> > SchemaParseException: No "type" property: >> >> I believe that `avro.schema.parse` is designed to parse .avsc files (?). >> However, it is unclear how I can use `avro-tools` to convert my .avdl into >> .avsc. Is that possible? >> >> I am guessing there are many pieces I am missing and do not quite >> understand (yet) what the purpose of all of these files are. >> >> It does appear that an .avpr is a JSON file (?) so I can just read and >> interpret it myself, but I was hoping that there would be a python package >> that would assist me in navigating the data. >> >> Can anyone provide some insights into this? Thank you. >> >
