Hi Lewis Thanks for your reply! I have been looking into these tools. The fromtext tool uses “bytes” as a default schema and I have not found a way to specify schema to this tool. Is there any way I can specify a schema for the text file and convert it into avro?.
From: Lewis John Mcgibbney [mailto:lewis.mcgibb...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 5:30 PM To: user@avro.apache.org Subject: Re: COnverting CSV files to avro and back to text Hi Bhuvana Have you checked out the Tools module? Some really helpful utilities in there which you can either use or use for motivation for achieving exactly what you are after. In particular... https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/avro/trunk/lang/java/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/tool/FromTextTool.java and https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/avro/trunk/lang/java/tools/src/main/java/org/apache/avro/tool/ToTextTool.java HTH Lewis On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Bhuvana Bellala <bhuvana.bell...@cormac-corp.com<mailto:bhuvana.bell...@cormac-corp.com>> wrote: Hi, I want convert a CSV file into avro format so that I can compress data and do some map reduce things in Hadoop. And then I want to convert the avro data back to text. Are there any tools to do this? I know I could use hive to do this but I want to know if there are any other ways to do this? Thank! [Cormac_logo] Bhuvana Bellala| Intern ________________________________ 13921 Park Center Road, Suite 180, Herndon VA 20171| CMMI Maturity Level 3 Rated| GSA Schedule 70| SBA SDB, 8(a)| www.cormac-corp.com<http://www.cormac-corp.com/> This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the named addressee you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you are notified that disclosing, copying, distributing or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited. -- Lewis
