AVRO Union type support in Flink

[Vishnu Viswanath <vi...@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

Does Flink support AVRO union types - Documentation says it supports
nullable types: {"name": "type_double_test", "type": ["null", "double"]}

But my schema has something like : {"name": "union_field", "type":
["string", "double"]}

Thanks
Vishnu

Re: AVRO Union type support in Flink

[Timo Walther <tw...@apache.org>]

Hi Vishnu,

I took a look into the code. Actually, we should support it. However, 
those types might be mapped to Java Objects that will be serialized with 
our generic Kryo serializer. Have you tested it?

Regards,
Timo


Am 19.07.17 um 06:30 schrieb Martin Eden:
> Hey Vishnu,
>
> For those of us on the list that are not very familiar with Flink and 
> Avro can you give a pointed to the docs you are referring to and how 
> you intend to use it? Just so we gain understanding as well.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Vishnu Viswanath 
> <vishnu.viswanath25@gmail.com <ma...@gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Hi All,
>
>     Does Flink support AVRO union types - Documentation says it
>     supports nullable types: {"name": "type_double_test", "type":
>     ["null", "double"]}
>
>     But my schema has something like : {"name": "union_field", "type":
>     ["string", "double"]}
>
>     Thanks
>     Vishnu
>
>
>

Re: AVRO Union type support in Flink

[Martin Eden <ma...@gmail.com>]

Hey Vishnu,

For those of us on the list that are not very familiar with Flink and Avro
can you give a pointed to the docs you are referring to and how you intend
to use it? Just so we gain understanding as well.

Thanks,
Martin

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Vishnu Viswanath <
vishnu.viswanath25@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Does Flink support AVRO union types - Documentation says it supports
> nullable types: {"name": "type_double_test", "type": ["null", "double"]}
>
> But my schema has something like : {"name": "union_field", "type":
> ["string", "double"]}
>
> Thanks
> Vishnu
>
>
>