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> AvroInputFormat should support schema evolution
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-12304
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-12304
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Formats (JSON, Avro, Parquet, ORC, SequenceFile)
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.0
>            Reporter: John
>            Priority: Not a Priority
>              Labels: auto-deprioritized-major, auto-deprioritized-minor
>
> From the avro spec:
> _A reader of Avro data, whether from an RPC or a file, can always parse that 
> data because its schema is provided. But that schema may not be exactly the 
> schema that was expected. For example, if the data was written with a 
> different version of the software than it is read, then records may have had 
> fields added or removed._
> The AvroInputFormat should allow the application to supply a reader's schema 
> to support cases where data was written with an old version of a schema and 
> needs to be read with a newer version.  The reader's schema can have addition 
> fields with defaults so that the old schema can be adapted to the new.  The 
> underlying avro java library supports schema resolution, so adding support in 
> AvroInputFormat should be straight forward.



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