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Posted to user@avro.apache.org by Hans Uhlig <hu...@uhlisys.com> on 2013/08/02 01:26:08 UTC

Avro fIle Header

Is there a good way to read the schema out of an AVRO data file. I want to
write a few generic tools for handling avro files but I dont want to depend
on external schema files.

Re: Avro fIle Header

Posted by Bertrand Dechoux <de...@gmail.com>.

It depends what really is the question but you could look at avro tools.
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/avro/trunk/lang/java/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/tool/DataFileGetSchemaTool.java?view=markup

Regards

Bertrand

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Hans Uhlig <hu...@uhlisys.com> wrote:

> Is there a good way to read the schema out of an AVRO data file. I want to
> write a few generic tools for handling avro files but I dont want to depend
> on external schema files.
>