rsgen-avro  

A command line tool and library for generating serde-compatible Rust types from Avro schemas. The apache-avro crate, which is re-exported, provides a way to read and write Avro data with such types.

Command line usage

Download the latest release or install with:

cargo install rsgen-avro

Available options:

Usage:
  rsgen-avro [options] <schema-files-glob-pattern> <output-file>
  rsgen-avro (-h | --help)
  rsgen-avro (-V | --version)

Options:
  --fmt              Run rustfmt on the resulting <output-file>
  --nullable         Replace null fields with their default value when deserializing.
  --precision=P      Precision for f32/f64 default values that aren't round numbers [default: 3].
  --union-deser      Custom deserialization for apache-avro multi-valued union types.
  --derive-builders  Derive builders for generated record structs.
  --derive-schemas   Derive AvroSchema for generated record structs.
  -V, --version      Show version.
  -h, --help         Show this screen.

Library usage

As a libray, the basic usage is:

use rsgen_avro::{Source, Generator};

let raw_schema = r#"
{
    "type": "record",
    "name": "test",
    "fields": [
        {"name": "a", "type": "long", "default": 42},
        {"name": "b", "type": "string"}
    ]
}
"#;

let source = Source::SchemaStr(&raw_schema);

let mut out = std::io::stdout();

let g = Generator::new().unwrap();
g.gen(&source, &mut out).unwrap();

This will generate the following output:

#[derive(Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Clone, serde::Deserialize, serde::Serialize)]
pub struct Test {
    #[serde(default = "default_test_a")]
    pub a: i64,
    pub b: String,
}

#[inline(always)]
fn default_test_a() -> i64 { 42 }

Various Schema sources can be used with Generator's .gen(..) method:

pub enum Source<'a> {
    Schema(&'a rsgen_avro::Schema),    // Avro schema enum re-exported from `apache-avro`
    Schemas(&'a [rsgen_avro::Schema]), // A slice of Avro schema enums
    SchemaStr(&'a str),                // Schema as a json string
    GlobPattern(&'a str),              // Glob pattern to select schema files
}

Note also that the Generator can be customized with a builder:

let g = Generator::builder().precision(2).build().unwrap();

The derive_builders option will use the derive-builder crate to derive builders for the generated structs. The builders will only be derived for those structs that are generated from Avro records.

Limitations

• Avro schema namespace fields are ignored, therefore names from a single schema must not conflict.