Hi, According to https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.11/dev/table/connectors/filesystem.html, avro is supported for table API but below code failed:
tEnv.executeSql("CREATE TABLE people (\n" + " id INT,\n" + " name STRING\n" + ") WITH (\n" + " 'connector' = 'filesystem',\n" + " 'path' = 'file:///data/test.avro',\n" + " 'format' = 'avro',\n" + " 'record-class' = 'avro.Person',\n" + " 'property-version' = '1',\n" + " 'properties.bootstrap.servers' = 'kafka:9092'\n" + ")"); But got: Caused by: org.apache.flink.client.program.ProgramInvocationException: The main method caused an error: Could not find any factory for identifier 'avro' that implements 'org.apache.flink.table.factories.FileSystemFormatFactory' in the classpath. jobmanager_1 | jobmanager_1 | Available factory identifiers are: jobmanager_1 | jobmanager_1 | csv jobmanager_1 | json jobmanager_1 | parquet jobmanager_1 | at org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram.callMainMethod(PackagedProgram.java:302) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.0.jar:1.11.0] jobmanager_1 | at org.apache.flink.client.program.PackagedProgram.invokeInteractiveModeForExecution(PackagedProgram.java:198) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.0.jar:1.11.0] jobmanager_1 | at org.apache.flink.client.ClientUtils.executeProgram(ClientUtils.java:149) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.0.jar:1.11.0] jobmanager_1 | at org.apache.flink.client.deployment.application.ApplicationDispatcherBootstrap.runApplicationEntryPoint(ApplicationDispatcherBootstrap.java:230) ~[flink-dist_2.11-1.11.0.jar:1.11.0] jobmanager_1 | ... 10 more jobmanager_1 | Caused by: org.apache.flink.table.api.ValidationException: Could not find any factory for identifier 'avro' that implements 'org.apache.flink.table.factories.FileSystemFormatFactory' in the classpath. Any idea? Thanks! Regards Leon