cavro

An Avro serializer/deserializer for python written in cython. https://stestagg.github.io/cavro/

Functionality

Basic

• Parse Schema json
• Non-core attributes
• name resolution
• namespaced name resolution

Basic schema support

• Null
• Union array
• boolean
• int
• long
• float
• double
• bytes
• string
• record
• fixed
• enum
• array
• map

Value Reading (Binary encoding)

• Null
• bool
• int
• long
• float
• double
• bytes
• string
• record
• fixed
• enum
• array
• map

Value Writing (Binary encoding)

• Null
• bool
• int
• long
• float
• double
• bytes
• string
• record
• fixed
• enum
• array
• map

Value Reading (Json encoding)

• Null
• bool
• int
• long
• float
• double
• bytes
• string
• record
• fixed
• enum
• array
• map

Value Writing (Json encoding)

• Null
• bool
• int
• long
• float
• double
• bytes
• string
• record
• fixed
• enum
• array
• map

Schema Validation

• Null
• bool
• int
• long
• float
• double
• bytes
• string
• record
• fixed
• enum
• array
• map

Canonical form

• Null
• bool
• int
• long
• float
• double
• bytes
• string
• record
• fixed
• enum
• array
• map
• fingerprinting
• md5, sha256
• rabin

Container format

• basic reading
• read schema
• read objects
• Write container
• null schema
• deflate support
• snappy support
• Improved reader error handling
• Snappy checksum validation

Logical Types

• Decimal
• Date
• Time (millis)
• Time (micros)
• Timestamp (millis)
• Timestamp (micros)
• Duration

Other

• writing array & maps by chunk