How to nest records in an Avro schema?
According to other sources on the web I would rewrite your second address definition:
mySchema = """
{
"name": "person",
"type": "record",
"fields": [
{"name": "firstname", "type": "string"},
{"name": "lastname", "type": "string"},
{
"name": "address",
"type": {
"type" : "record",
"name" : "AddressUSRecord",
"fields" : [
{"name": "streetaddress", "type": "string"},
{"name": "city", "type": "string"}
]
}
}
]
}"""
Every time we provide the type as named type, the field needs to be given as:
"name":"some_name",
"type": {
"name":"CodeClassName",
"type":"record/enum/array"
}
However, if the named type is union, then we do not need an extra type field and should be usable as:
"name":"some_name",
"type": [{
"name":"CodeClassName1",
"type":"record",
"fields": ...
},
{
"name":"CodeClassName2",
"type":"record",
"fields": ...
}]
Hope this clarifies further!