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Seth Wiesman commented on FLINK-18096:
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[~jark] Assume you are creating a table to write out to a Kafka topic. Flink 
currently generates an avro schema with no namespace and name row_0. It would 
be nice if the outermost record type could have a user-specified name and 
namespace. One issue is you cannot create a specific record from this schema 
that is usable from Java because you cannot have classes in the default 
package. So the DDL statement: 


{code:sql}
CREATE TABLE orders (
        order_id STRING,
        amount DOUBLE
) WITH (
    'format' = 'avro',
    'avro-name' = 'orders',
    'avro-namespace' = 'org.mycompany'
);
{code}

Would generate this Avro schema, 

{code:json}
{ 
   "type": "record",
    "name": "orders",
    "namespace": "org.mycompany",
    "fields": [
        { "name": "order_id", "type": "string" },
        { "name: "amount", "type": "double }
    ]
}
{code}

Instead of this: 

{code:json}
{ 
   "type": "record",
    "name": "row_0",
    "fields": [
        { "name": "order_id", "type": "string" },
        { "name: "amount", "type": "double }
    ]
}
{code}
 
 

> Generated avro formats should support user specified name and namespace
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-18096
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-18096
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Formats (JSON, Avro, Parquet, ORC, SequenceFile)
>            Reporter: Seth Wiesman
>            Priority: Major
>
> When avro schema is auto derived it should still be possible to specify 
> namespace and name. 



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