GitHub user soniclavier opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4422
[FLINK-7299][AVRO] Write GenericRecord using AvroOutputFormat ## What is the purpose of the change Allow writing Avro GenericRecord using AvroOutputFormat. ## Brief change log - Added condition in AvroOutputFormat to check if avroValue is an instance of GenericRecord and create a GenericDatumWriter. ## Verifying this change This change added tests and can be verified as follows: - Added unit tests- testGenericRecord() in AvroOutputFormatTest to write GenericRecords. ## Does this pull request potentially affect one of the following parts: - Dependencies (does it add or upgrade a dependency): no - The public API, i.e., is any changed class annotated with `@Public(Evolving)`: no - The serializers: yes - The runtime per-record code paths (performance sensitive): no - Anything that affects deployment or recovery: JobManager (and its components), Checkpointing, Yarn/Mesos, ZooKeeper: no ## Documentation - Does this pull request introduce a new feature?: no (not a major feature) - If yes, how is the feature documented? not applicable You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/soniclavier/flink FLINK-7299-GenericRecord-in-AvroOutputFormat Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4422.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #4422 ---- commit 1c71ca43bcd5d4733e581f80637b531ba447e9dc Author: Vishnu Viswanath <vishnu.viswanat...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-07-31T04:58:28Z [FLINK-7299][AVRO] Write GenericRecord using AvroOutputFormat ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---