[SQOOP-1450] Copy the avro schema file to hdfs for AVRO based import

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.5
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.6
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: Pratik Khadloya
• Reporter: Pratik Khadloya
• Created: 19/Aug/14 19:05
• Updated: 09/Nov/14 18:14
• Resolved: 27/Sep/14 03:51

Description

Currently sqoop imports the avro file directly to hdfs.
The schema of the avro files is very important to have. Currently the only way to get the schema from the avro file is to follow the steps listed in http://dev.gbif.org/wiki/display/DEV/Sqoop+to+Hive+using+Avro

Apart from being able to programmatically use the schema,it also enables us to convert the avro file to Parquet too using the avro2parquet converter.