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Grant Overby
Grant Overby

Reputation: 171

Encode an object with Avro to a byte array in Python

In python 2.7, using Avro, I'd like to encode an object to a byte array.

All examples I've found write to a file.

I've tried using io.BytesIO() but this gives:

AttributeError: '_io.BytesIO' object has no attribute 'write_long'

Sample using io.BytesIO

def avro_encode(raw, schema):
    writer = DatumWriter(schema)
    avro_buffer = io.BytesIO()
    writer.write(raw, avro_buffer)
    return avro_buffer.getvalue()

Upvotes: 17

Views: 22579

Answers (3)

frankmurphy
frankmurphy

Reputation: 384

Using fastavro in 2025 (https://fastavro.readthedocs.io/en/latest/writer.html)

        schema_json = {
                "type": "record",
                "name": "User",
                "namespace": "com.test",
                "fields": [
                    {"name": "person_name", "type": "string"},
                    {"name": "age", "type": "int"},
                    {"name": "email", "type": "string"}
                ]
            }
        

        data_user_1 = {"person_name": "John Doe", "email": "[email protected]", "age": 30}
        data_user_2 = {"person_name": "Jane Doe",  "email": "[email protected]", "age": 25}

        parsed_schema = parse_schema(schema_json)

        bytes_io = BytesIO()
        writer(bytes_io, parsed_schema, [data_user_1, data_user_2])

Upvotes: 0

Kasthuri Shravankumar
Kasthuri Shravankumar

Reputation: 679

Using import avro library we can't write the avro file with the schema.

To overcome this problem use fastavro e.g.

import io
import fastavro
data = [{"name": "Shravan", "favorite_number": 256}, {"name": "Ram", "favorite_number": 7, "favorite_color": "red"}]
bytes_writer = io.BytesIO()
fastavro.writer(bytes_writer, get_avro_schema(), data)
print(bytes_writer.get_value())

Upvotes: -2

ppearcy
ppearcy

Reputation: 2762

Your question helped me figure things out, so thanks. Here's a simple python example based on the python example in the docs:

import io
import avro.schema
import avro.io

test_schema = '''
{
"namespace": "example.avro",
 "type": "record",
 "name": "User",
 "fields": [
     {"name": "name", "type": "string"},
     {"name": "favorite_number",  "type": ["int", "null"]},
     {"name": "favorite_color", "type": ["string", "null"]}
 ]
}
'''

schema = avro.schema.parse(test_schema)
writer = avro.io.DatumWriter(schema)

bytes_writer = io.BytesIO()
encoder = avro.io.BinaryEncoder(bytes_writer)
writer.write({"name": "Alyssa", "favorite_number": 256}, encoder)
writer.write({"name": "Ben", "favorite_number": 7, "favorite_color": "red"}, encoder)

raw_bytes = bytes_writer.getvalue()
print(len(raw_bytes))
print(type(raw_bytes))

bytes_reader = io.BytesIO(raw_bytes)
decoder = avro.io.BinaryDecoder(bytes_reader)
reader = avro.io.DatumReader(schema)
user1 = reader.read(decoder)
user2 = reader.read(decoder)

print(user1)
print(user2)

Upvotes: 47

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