[FLINK-6212] [docs] Add avro dependency reference Adds the reference to the maven dependecy for flink-avro in the "Avro support in Flink" section.
This closes #3638. Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink/commit/c8f8a41b Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink/tree/c8f8a41b Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink/diff/c8f8a41b Branch: refs/heads/table-retraction Commit: c8f8a41b5942c00c05d78a1e1f58ba50a489a509 Parents: ffca0e7 Author: Omar Erminy <omr...@gmail.com> Authored: Wed Mar 29 09:35:23 2017 +0200 Committer: zentol <ches...@apache.org> Committed: Wed Apr 5 20:41:13 2017 +0200 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- docs/dev/batch/connectors.md | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/flink/blob/c8f8a41b/docs/dev/batch/connectors.md ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/docs/dev/batch/connectors.md b/docs/dev/batch/connectors.md index 912d0af..b7a0718 100644 --- a/docs/dev/batch/connectors.md +++ b/docs/dev/batch/connectors.md @@ -87,7 +87,15 @@ This section shows some examples for connecting Flink to other systems. ## Avro support in Flink Flink has extensive build-in support for [Apache Avro](http://avro.apache.org/). This allows to easily read from Avro files with Flink. -Also, the serialization framework of Flink is able to handle classes generated from Avro schemas. +Also, the serialization framework of Flink is able to handle classes generated from Avro schemas. Be sure to include the Flink Avro dependency to the pom.xml of your project. + +~~~xml +<dependency> + <groupId>org.apache.flink</groupId> + <artifactId>flink-avro{{ site.scala_version_suffix }}</artifactId> + <version>{{site.version }}</version> +</dependency> +~~~ In order to read data from an Avro file, you have to specify an `AvroInputFormat`.
