Utilities Examples

Example : Avro Schema Generator

Follow these steps to generate schema using avro schema generator:

• This examples assumes a running MySql setup. It also assumes the user root with no password.
• git clone aesop (ignore if done already)
• Run mvn clean install in sample-mysql-relay directory. This might take a while to download Aesop, Trooper and their dependencies from the various Maven repositories.
• A distribution directory will be created in the sample-mysql-relay directory. This directory is the distribution which contains the built sample.
• To display help about schema generator, execute following command

java -cp "lib/*" com.flipkart.aesop.avro.schemagenerator.main.SchemaGeneratorCli -help

• Following command generates avro schema of all tables in database or_test and saves the .avro files of each table in a folder at path ~/Desktop/schema

java -cp "lib/*" com.flipkart.aesop.avro.schemagenerator.main.SchemaGeneratorCli -d or_test -f ~/Desktop/schema -v 1

• Successful execution of command will print a lot of log messages on terminal followed by following success message:

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********* Written Schema to folder /Users/<username>/Desktop/schema ***********

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