You can do this, sure. You just need a schema of string type or something similar.
Are you not concerned about the read time of the data you plan to store as strings? Typically you write once and read more than once during processing. Storing the data types in proper serialized form would help greatly during reads. On Mar 4, 2014 8:54 AM, "yael aharon" <yael.aharo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > I am writing a C++ library that stores arbitrary data to avro files. > The schema is given to me through my library's API. > All the data is given to me in the form of strings; including integers, > doubles, etc. > Is there a way for me to store this data to avro files without converting > the strings to the correct types first? I am concerned about the > performance impact that this conversion would have > thanks, Yael >
