Hi Stefan, We have enhanced Drill Avro Reader by supporting complex data types like Union, Map etc.. This is targeted for 1.2.0 release. This release will happen in a day or in a couple days.
On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Stefán Baxter <ste...@activitystream.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm changing our logging to use the Avro format and there I'm relying on > Maps and Records (f.ex. union ["null","RecordType"]) in addition to > primitive types. > > I'm getting this error in Drill when I try to query the test file: > > Error: SYSTEM ERROR: UnsupportedOperationException: Avro union type must be > of the format : ["null", "some-type"] > > > This error message provides no clues to which field are involved here but > I'm hoping that this does not mean that sub structures, available in both > JSON and Parquet, are not available in Avro as Records. > > Can someone please shed some light on this. > > Regards, > -Stefan > -- Kamesh.
