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Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2015 09:25:58 -0500
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Subject: Re: Avro Create Generic Type
From: Peter Amstutz <peter.amstutz@curoverse.com>
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Hi Rushi,

Take a look at Schema Salad, it enables you to write a schema with
inheritance and type templating and then run it through a processor to
get a valid Avro schema, among other features:

https://github.com/common-workflow-language/schema_salad

(since it just converts to valid Avro, you won't get Java generics, though)

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Rushi <hrishi.engineer@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am fairly certain that this is not possible currently, but thought I
> should ask anyway.
>
> In Avro, is there a way to create generic types using schema files? As an
> example, this is what I am looking to create:
>
> /**
>  * Autogenerated by Avro
>  *
>  * DO NOT EDIT DIRECTLY
>  */
> public class MyAvroType<T> {
>   private Object value;  // value will be of type T.
> }
>
> Here, this parameterized java class would be generated by the
> avro-maven-plugin or any other available plugin using the avsc files.
>
> What I am trying to solve is, to know the type of the value that will get
> stored in the avro object so that I can find out any class compatibility
> issues at compile time rather than at runtime.
>
> Thanks!