[AVRO-670] Allow DataFileWriteTool to accept schema files as input

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: java
• Hadoop Flags: Incompatible change, Reviewed
• Release Note: The "fromjson" tool now requires either a --schema or --schema-file command-line argument to specify the schema. Previously, the schema was to be specified as the first argument.
• Assignee: Ron Bodkin
• Reporter: Ron Bodkin
• Created: 17/Sep/10 17:55
• Updated: 13/Dec/11 19:06
• Resolved: 20/Sep/10 17:14

Description

For non-trivial schemas, it's difficult to pass them inline as a command line argument. I made a patch to use two different arguments: instead of having the first argument be the schema you would now use -schema-file file or -schema schema and then have one other argument (the input JSON file)