[AVRO-1248] Add a avro tool that dumps the protocol from a remote RPC service

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.4
• Component/s: java
• Release Note: New avro tool 'rpcprotocol' to dump the protocol of a remote RPC service
• Assignee: Gareth Davis
• Reporter: Gareth Davis
• Created: 10/Feb/13 16:04
• Updated: 27/Feb/13 00:54
• Resolved: 10/Feb/13 19:02

Description

Would like to introspect a running RPC service using the avro command line tool.

expected command would be:

java -jar avro-tools.jar rpcprotocol uri

The output would be pretty printed Protocol definition reported by the remote server during the handshake