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Seth Wiesman commented on FLINK-18096: -------------------------------------- [~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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)