[AVRO-2892] Avro should provide codec implementations for Python

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: python
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Michael A. Smith
• Created: 11/Jul/20 19:51
• Updated: 11/Jul/20 19:51

Description

Registered Python codecs provide a fluent and natural way to convert between object and serialized (particularly as-binary) data. Avro should provide two codec implementations:

1. Static encode and decode, that encodes native Python objects (lists, dicts, and primitive scalars) and infer the schema from the data itself, producing a binary string containing the schema and the encoded data.
2. A solution for registering a Schema into the Python codec registry, so that codec.encode/decode can convert objects into Avro binary for that schema.