sorry wrong list ... please ignore
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:26 PM, Yang <teddyyyy...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a protocol schema hello.avpr
>
> { ....
> types: {
> { name : input_msg , type: record : fields [
> { name: date , type int },
> { name :msg, type: string}
> ]
> }
>
> }
>
> }
>
>
> now if I need to serialize the record "input_msg", I'm going to need its
> schema,
> so I'd need to pass a schema obj to DataFileWriter. but how can I parse the
> schema out from schema file?
> the schema for "input_msg" is not a standalone file.
>
> I would like a way to write the type of "input_msg" in a standalone file,
> and then reference/include that from my hello.avpr.
> is this possible?
>
>
> also btw, for an avro-generate object class, would it be better to make the
> getSchema() method static?
> that way I can get its schema without creating an actual obj
>
>
> thanks
> Yang
>
>
