jsonschema-avro

Converts JSON-schema definitions into Avro definitions.

Install

// clone repo and inside the repo do, to install the module locally
npm install
// inside your node project do, which will fetch the local version
npm install jsonschema-avro

Extra features

1. Supports optional records and arrays
2. Avoid records with the same name

Example

// inside a file called, converter.js
const jsonSchemaAvro = require('jsonschema-avro')
var fs = require('fs')
var path = process.cwd()
var buffer = fs.readFileSync(path + "/" + process.argv[2])
const inJson = JSON.parse(buffer.toString())
const avro = jsonSchemaAvro.convert(inJson, process.argv[3], process.argv[4])
console.log(JSON.stringify(avro))

// create a file schema.json with your json-schema
touch schema.json

// usage
node converter.js schema.json "com.example.avro.MyAvro" "MyAvro" > avro.json