Avro File Output

Description

The Avro File Output transform can write Apache Avro messages to a file or field

Options

Option Description

Transform name

Name of the transform. Note: This name has to be unique in a single pipeline.

Output Type

The type of output you want, this can be binary file, binary message or a JSON message. When selecting message it will be sent to the Output Field.

Filename

The filepath where to save the avro data file.

Output Field

When not writing to a file this is the fieldname used to output the message to.

Automatically create schema

You can either select an existing schema or create a schema based on the fields in the fields tab.

Write schema to file

Select this to write the schema to a separate file.

Avro namespace

Namespace used in the Avro file.

Avro record name

Name used for the Avro record.

Avro documentation

Schema filename

Filepath to write or read the schema from.

Create parent folder

When creating a file, select this if you want to create the parent folder.

Compression codec

Compression used for the avro messages when writing to a file.

Include transform nr in filename

Add the Transform instance number to the filename.

Include partition nr in filename

Add the Partition number to the filename.

Include date in filename

Include the date when the file was created in the filename

Include time in filename

Include the time when the file was created in the filename

Specify date format

Specify a custom date and format to attach to the filename

Date time format

Date time specification used for the formatting

Add filenames to result

Add the resulting filenames that are created to the filename results

Fields tab:

Option Description

Name

The source field in the stream.

Avro Schema Path

The destination field, when an existing schema is specified this is populated with the fields from the schema to map the input fields to.

Avro Type

The Avro type of the field in the Avro destination file.

Nullable

Is the field nullable?

Metadata Injection Support

All fields of this transform support metadata injection.

To inject the Avro field type use following codes

AVRO_TYPE_NONE = 0
AVRO_TYPE_BOOLEAN = 1
AVRO_TYPE_DOUBLE = 2
AVRO_TYPE_FLOAT = 3
AVRO_TYPE_INT = 4
AVRO_TYPE_LONG = 5
AVRO_TYPE_STRING = 6
AVRO_TYPE_ENUM = 7