Can I split an Apache Avro schema across multiple files?

Question

I can do,

{
    \"type\": \"record\",
    \"name\": \"Foo\",
    \"fields\": [
        {\"name\": \"bar\", \"type\": {
            \"type\": \"record\",
             


        

Answer 1

I assume, your motivation is (as my own) structuring your schema definition and avoiding copy&paste-errors.

To achieve that, you can also use Avro IDL. It allows to define avro schemas on a higher level. Reusing types is possible within the same file and also across multiple files.

To generate the .avsc-files run

$ java -jar avro-tools-1.7.7.jar idl2schemata my-protocol.avdl

The resulting .avsc-files will look pretty much the same as your initial example, but as they are generated from the .avdl you'll not get lost in the verbose json-format.