Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-avro-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-avro-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E403A10661 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:27:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 51652 invoked by uid 500); 18 Sep 2013 21:27:32 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-avro-user-archive@avro.apache.org Received: (qmail 51352 invoked by uid 500); 18 Sep 2013 21:27:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@avro.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@avro.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@avro.apache.org Received: (qmail 50695 invoked by uid 99); 18 Sep 2013 21:27:08 -0000 Received: from minotaur.apache.org (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:27:08 +0000 Received: from localhost (HELO mail-pb0-f41.google.com) (127.0.0.1) (smtp-auth username cutting, mechanism plain) by minotaur.apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:27:08 +0000 Received: by mail-pb0-f41.google.com with SMTP id rp2so7594472pbb.0 for ; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=5Lr0sLaFn2IFxajWLTzDIH6Y0asptiM45EXwuCiZ32U=; b=SzgmVJWkj2WQaVClMnPb2FsHHd/2NHfr3xTg+8yzBHk2NfLSL396EsRl+dzaytBqcI vC3yjUW0dpw0k13lk5eElNaadlnEPP9RLDKT9dJv2d9KXlvzhX9qOO5hU/Bgh9TxzuHD 4W82PHfatGq2qQ0cG15DgfBBcPyUNjZz9RDviRNFF8HRipVJ9efDrTFSjH0dixRGtvni 8AfJDFtBxQ2W7+HE3FzWe8X8ZgngBL7/gJLjg4M37xbH6uHtEXFJsaQZV2XK4++Olw25 fxAkvKY4EmgIjuUABD0L1vNm7I/TbHnXMrq6voTRjvB7CotevYHWyaV2POxOr9D8tgko 8FkQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.204.136 with SMTP id ky8mr4830083pbc.192.1379539627715; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.126.104 with HTTP; Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:27:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2013 14:27:07 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Apache Avro Encoding types? From: Doug Cutting To: user@avro.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Raihan Jamal wrote: > Suppose if I am going with Binary encoding route instead of JSON then does > the schema also gets stored in that binary encoding format always? The schema is stored in Avro data files. Avro RPC also manages schemas for you. But if you store Avro binary-encoded data in some other container then you may need to keep track of the schema yourself. Doug