[SPARK-26856] Python support for "from_avro" and "to_avro" APIs

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0, 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: PySpark, SQL, Structured Streaming
• Assignee: Gabor Somogyi
• Reporter: Gabor Somogyi
• Created: 11/Feb/19 09:17
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:11
• Resolved: 11/Mar/19 01:15

Description

Built-in avro support added in 2.4 but the from_avro and to_avro functionalities are only available in scala and java. It would be good to add python support.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #23797
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #24268