Time for action – consuming the Avro data with Java

Now that we have some Avro data, let's write some Java code to consume it:

  1. Create the following as InputRead.java:
    import java.io.File; import java.io.IOException; import org.apache.avro.file.DataFileReader; import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData; import org.apache.avro. generic.GenericDatumReader; import org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord; import org.apache.avro.io.DatumReader; public class InputRead { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String filename = args[0] ; File file=new File(filename) ; DatumReader<GenericRecord> reader= new GenericDatumReader<GenericRecord>(); DataFileReader<GenericRecord>dataFileReader=new DataFileReader<GenericRecord>(file,reader); while ...

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