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ASF GitHub Bot commented on BEAM-2677:
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Github user asfgit closed the pull request at:
https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/3632
> AvroIO.read without specifying a schema
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> Key: BEAM-2677
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-2677
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: sdk-java-core
> Reporter: Eugene Kirpichov
> Assignee: Eugene Kirpichov
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> Sometimes it is inconvenient to require the user of AvroIO.read/readAll to
> specify a Schema for the Avro files they are reading, especially if different
> files may have different schemas.
> It is possible to read GenericRecord objects from an Avro file, however it is
> not possible to provide a Coder for GenericRecord without knowing the schema:
> a GenericRecord knows its schema so we can encode it into a byte array, but
> we can not decode it from a byte array without knowing the schema (and
> encoding the full schema together with every record would be impractical).
> Instead, a reasonable approach is to treat schemaless GenericRecord as
> unencodable and use the same approach as JdbcIO - a user-specified parse
> callback.
> Suggested API: AvroIO.parseGenericRecords(SerializableFunction<GenericRecord,
> T> parseFn).from(filepattern).
> CC: [~mkhadikov] [~reuvenlax]
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