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The mapping of Spark schema to Avro schema is many-to-many. (See https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-data-sources-avro.html#supported-types-for-spark-sql---avro-conversion)
The default schema mapping might not be exactly what users want. For example, by default a "string" column is always written as "string" Avro type, but users might want to output the column as "enum" Avro type.
With PR https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/21847, Spark supports user-specified schema in the batch writer.
For the function `to_avro`, we should support user-specified output schema as well.
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