avro command line tool

avro-commandline

source :- http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2013/03/17/reading-and-writing-avro-files-from-the-command-line/
download tools jar - http://mirror.catn.com/pub/apache/avro/avro-1.7.5/java/avro-tools-1.7.5.jar

add following to ~/.bashrc

alias avro='java -jar /home/yash/software/avro/avro-tools-1.7.5.jar'

now use just as avro command


yash::ubuntu { 04:36:20 }-> avro
Version 1.7.5 of Apache Avro
Copyright 2010 The Apache Software Foundation

This product includes software developed at
The Apache Software Foundation (http://www.apache.org/).

C JSON parsing provided by Jansson and
written by Petri Lehtinen. The original software is
available from http://www.digip.org/jansson/.
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Available tools:
          cat  extracts samples from files
      compile  Generates Java code for the given schema.
       concat  Concatenates avro files without re-compressing.
   fragtojson  Renders a binary-encoded Avro datum as JSON.
     fromjson  Reads JSON records and writes an Avro data file.
     fromtext  Imports a text file into an avro data file.
      getmeta  Prints out the metadata of an Avro data file.
    getschema  Prints out schema of an Avro data file.
          idl  Generates a JSON schema from an Avro IDL file
 idl2schemata  Extract JSON schemata of the types from an Avro IDL file
       induce  Induce schema/protocol from Java class/interface via reflection.
   jsontofrag  Renders a JSON-encoded Avro datum as binary.
       random  Creates a file with randomly generated instances of a schema.
      recodec  Alters the codec of a data file.
  rpcprotocol  Output the protocol of a RPC service
   rpcreceive  Opens an RPC Server and listens for one message.
      rpcsend  Sends a single RPC message.
       tether  Run a tethered mapreduce job.
       tojson  Dumps an Avro data file as JSON, one record per line.
       totext  Converts an Avro data file to a text file.
     totrevni  Converts an Avro data file to a Trevni file.
  trevni_meta  Dumps a Trevni file's metadata as JSON.
trevni_random  Create a Trevni file filled with random instances of a schema.
trevni_tojson  Dumps a Trevni file as JSON.