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Doug Cutting commented on AVRO-245:
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My paranoia aside, I have a much harder time time imagining use cases for this
than I do for a data file tool. I am not in the habit of grabbing random
binary portions of files or packets and trying to decode them, nor can I
imagine that others are. I am interested in rendering a binary data file as
text. I think the tool named binary_to_json should operate on data files.
Perhaps we might support a binary_data_fragment_to_json, but I'd much rather
see the data file utility first. As you mention, if folks really have a binary
fragment, they can use the java or some other API, but I don't see a
command-line shell tool use case for this.
> Commandline utility for converting to and from Avro's binary format.
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> Key: AVRO-245
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-245
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: java
> Reporter: Philip Zeyliger
> Assignee: Philip Zeyliger
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: AVRO-245.patch.txt, AVRO-245.patch.txt
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> A utility for avrotool that can convert between Avro binary data and the JSON
> textual form.
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