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Description

The Avro output step serializes data into Avro binary or JSON format, then writes to file on disk.

This output step creates 2 files: 1) the file containing output data in Avro format and 2) an Avro schema file - defined by the output step "fields"

Fields can be defined manually or extracted from incoming steps.

Options

Main Configuration

Option	Definition	Example
Step name	The name of this step as it appears in the transformation workspace.
Location	File system type of where the Avro output data will be written	Local, Hadoop Cluster, S3, HDFS, MapRFS
File name	The fully qualified URL where the Avro output data will be written. URL will be of different format depending on file system type (Location field).	file:///C:/avro-output-file _

Fields Tab

The Fields tab defines the fields that will make up the Avro schema that will be created by this step. These fields can be defined manually. Or users can click "Get Fields" button to populate these fields from the incoming PDI stream.

Option	Definition	Example(s)
Avro path	The name of the field as it will appear in the Avro Schema and avro file
Name	The name of the PDI field
Type	The data type of the field	String, Integer, etc
Default value	The default value of the field if it is null or empty
Null	Is this field allowed to have null values?	Yes, No
Get Fields (button)	If user clicks this button, the fields table will be populated with fields from the incoming PDI stream

Note

If the "Null" field is set to "No", null values are not allowed for this field. If the incoming data contain null values for such fields, the transformation will fail. To avoid this, make sure the "Default value" field is populated for all fields where "Null" is set to "No".

Schema Tab

The schema tab defines options for how the Avro schema file will be created. Reference: https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.8.1/spec.html#schema_record

Option	Definition	Example(s)
File Name	The fully qualified URL where the Avro schema file will be written. URL will be of different format depending on file system type (Location field). If a schema file already exists, it will be overwritten. Otherwise, a new file will be created.	_file:///C:/avro-output-schema_
Namespace	Together with the "Record name" field, this defines the "full name" of the schema (example.avro.User in this case).	example.avro
Record name	The name of the Avro record	User
Doc value	provides documentation to the user of this schema

Options Tab

The options tab contains additional options you can define for Avro output file / schema. In this case, there is only 1: compression. Reference: https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.8.1/spec.html#Object+Container+Files

Options	Definition	Example(s)
Compression	the name of the compression codec used to compress blocks in Avro output file	None, Deflate, Snappy

Metadata Injection Support (7.x and later)

All fields of this step support metadata injection. You can use this step with ETL Metadata Injection to pass metadata to your transformation at runtime.

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