[AVRO-867] Allow tools to read files via hadoop FileSystem class

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.7.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.5
• Component/s: java
• Release Note: avro-tools can now access Hadoop supported filesystem when started via hadoop jar.
• Assignee: Vincenz Priesnitz
• Reporter: Joe Crobak
• Created: 28/Jul/11 19:58
• Updated: 20/Aug/13 17:46
• Resolved: 22/Apr/13 20:00

Description

It would be great if I could use the various tools to read/parse files that are in HDFS, S3, etc via the FileSystem api. We could retain backwards compatibility by assuming that unqualified urls are "file://" but allow reading of files from fully qualified urls such as hdfs://. The required apis are already part of the avro-tools uber jar to support the TetherTool.