Hey David,
I'm not sure if C++ can do that. But I was able to use java to compile nested
schema, it will give you several java classes after using avro-tool-1.7.5 to
compile that.
Regards,Fan
> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 02:17:00 -0800
> From: david.el...@diegesis.co.uk
> To: user@avro.apache.org
> Subject: Parsing Nested Schemas in Avro C++
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there a C++ equivalent of the following Java functionality?
>
> / public static class Schema.Parser extends Object
>
> A parser for JSON-format schemas. Each named schema parsed with a parser
> is added to the names known to the parser so that subsequently parsed
> schemas may refer to it by name.
> /
> We have used this class from the Avro Java API to obtain a parser, and
> pre-parse complex object type schemas which are referred to in later
> schemas. E.g. we have parsed a record schema called "location", and referred
> to this subsequently by name in another (higher level) schema.
>
> Now trying to do the equivalent with the C++ API, and so far I have not
> found this functionality.
>
> I can do (from the documentation):
>
> / // My schema is stored in a file called “example”
> std::ifstream in(“example”);
>
> avro::ValidSchema mySchema;
> avro::compileJsonSchema(in, mySchema);
> /
> But this appears to only parse a single schema. It doesn't return a handle
> to the parser which can be used to parse further schemas. If I try putting
> multiple schemas in the input stream, it only parses the first one.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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