sbt-avro is a sbt plugin for generating Java sources for Avro schemas. It also supports referencing schemas from different files.
Add the plugin according to the sbt documentation.
For instance, add the following lines to project/plugins.sbt:
addSbtPlugin("com.github.sbt" % "sbt-avro" % "3.5.0")
Enable the plugin in your build.sbt and select the desired avro version to use:
enablePlugins(SbtAvro)
avroVersion := "1.12.0"
An avro configuration will be added to the project. Libraries defined with this scope will be loaded by the sbt plugin
to generate the avro classes.
| Name | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
avroAdditionalDependencies |
avro-compiler % avroVersion % "avro", avro % avroVersion % "compile" |
Additional dependencies to be added to library dependencies. |
avroCompiler |
com.github.sbt.avro.AvroCompilerBridge |
Sbt avro compiler class. |
avroCreateSetters |
true |
Generate setters. |
avroEnableDecimalLogicalType |
true |
Use java.math.BigDecimal instead of java.nio.ByteBuffer for logical type decimal. |
avroFieldVisibility |
public |
Field visibility for the properties. Possible values: private, public. |
avroOptionalGetters |
false (requires avro 1.10+) |
Generate getters that return Optional for nullable fields. |
avroStringType |
CharSequence |
Type for representing strings. Possible values: CharSequence, String, Utf8. |
avroUseNamespace |
false |
Validate that directory layout reflects namespaces, i.e. com/myorg/MyRecord.avsc. |
avroVersion |
1.12.0 |
Avro version to use in the project. |
| Name | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
avroGenerate / target |
sourceManaged / compiled_avro / $config |
Source directory for generated .java files. |
avroSource |
sourceDirectory / $config / avro |
Default Avro source directory for *.avsc, *.avdl and *.avpr files. |
avroSpecificRecords |
Seq.empty |
List of fully qualified Avro record class names to recompile with current avro version and settings. |
avroDependencyIncludeFilter |
Compile: avro classifier artifacts in Avro configTest: nothing |
Filter for including modules containing avro dependencies. |
avroUmanagedSourceDirectories |
Seq(avroSource) |
Unmanaged Avro source directories, which contain manually created sources. |
avroUnpackDependencies / excludeFilter |
HiddenFileFilter |
Filter for excluding avro specification files from unpacking. |
avroUnpackDependencies / includeFilter |
AllPassFilter |
Filter for including avro specification files to unpack. |
avroUnpackDependencies / target |
sourceManaged / avro / $config |
Target directory for schemas packaged in the dependencies |
packageAvro / artifactClassifier |
Some("avro") |
Classifier for avro artifact |
packageAvro / publishArtifact |
false |
Enable / Disable avro artifact publishing |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
avroGenerate |
Generate Java sources for Avro schemas. This task is automatically executed before compile. |
avroUnpackDependencies |
Unpack avro schemas from dependencies. This task is automatically executed before avroGenerate. |
packageAvro |
Produces an avro artifact, such as a jar containing avro schemas. |
For example, to change the Java type of the string fields, add the following lines to build.sbt:
avroStringType := "String"If you depend on an artifact with previously generated avro java classes with string fields as CharSequence,
you can recompile them with String by also adding the following
Compile / avroSpecificRecords += "com.example.MyAvroRecord" // lib must be added in the avro scopeAvro sources (*.avsc, *.avdl and *.avpr files) can be packaged in a separate jar with the source type and
avro classifier by running packageAvro.
By default, sbt-avro does not publish this. You can enable it with
Compile / packageAvro / publishArtifact := trueYou can specify a dependency on an avro source artifact that contains the schemas like so:
libraryDependencies += "org" % "name" % "rev" % "avro" classifier "avro"If some avro schemas are not packaged in a source/avro artifact, you can update the avroDependencyIncludeFilter
setting to instruct the plugin to look for schemas in the desired dependency:
libraryDependencies += "org" % "name" % "rev" % "avro" // module containing avro schemas
Compile / avroDependencyIncludeFilter := configurationFilter("avro") && moduleFilter(organization = "org", name = "name")If some artifact is meant to be used in the test scope only, you can do the following
libraryDependencies += "org" % "name" % "rev" % "avro" classifier "avro"
Compile / avroDependencyIncludeFilter ~= { old => old -- moduleFilter(organization = "org", name = "name") }
Test / avroDependencyIncludeFilter := configurationFilter("avro") && moduleFilter(organization = "org", name = "name")This program is distributed under the BSD license. See the file LICENSE for more details.
sbt-avro is maintained by the sbt Community. The
initial code was based on a similar plugin: sbt-protobuf. Feel free to file
issues or pull requests.