There's no way to do this now. There was an attempt to upgrade to 1.9.1 here [1]. The hangup was just that the default datetime type was switched to java time (from joda time). My memory is we could get that PR working just by setting some configuration.. somewhere.. to make sure we use joda time for Avro in Beam.
That approach limits us to 1.9 though as joda support is dropped in 1.10 [2]. Also you note that 1.9.x handles date fields much better - is that *because* it uses java time by default? Brian [1] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/9779 [2] https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/9779#discussion_r334400709 On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 9:34 AM Parth Desai <parthde...@google.com> wrote: > Hi, > > The latest version of beam currently only supports Avro 1.8.2, however, my > customer (Charles Schwab) is heavily using Avro 1.9.x which handles date > fields much better. Is there any way they can upgrade from 1.8.2 to 1.9.x > in Dataflow/beam? > > Thanks, > > > > Parth Desai > > Customer Engineer, Data Analytics Specialist - Google Cloud > > 500 W 2nd St, Austin, TX 78701 > > Mobile: 404-637-6674 <(404)%20637-6674> > > > >
