Timo Walther created FLINK-8183:
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Summary: Add native Avro type support to the Table API & SQL
Key: FLINK-8183
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8183
Project: Flink
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Table API & SQL
Reporter: Timo Walther
Avro types can pass the Table API, however, there should be a more native
support in order to have the best user experience. This issue is an umbrella
issue for tasks that would improve the handling of Avro types:
Improvements could be:
- Create a Avro type information that is created from an Avro schema that maps
to all supported Table API types (full knowledge about key and values of lists,
maps, and union types instead of {{GenericType}})
- Convert {{Utf8}} (even in nested Avro types) to string when entering the
Table API and convert it back if necessary
- Add scalar functions to change certain values (e.g.,
{{select('avroRecord.set("name", "Bob").set("age", 12))}}). This is in
particular useful when a type has a lot of fields.
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