| Avro C++ README.txt |
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| The C++ port is thus far incomplete. Currently, it contains: |
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| - Serializer/Parser- objects for writing/reading raw binary. |
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| - xxxSchema- objects for composing schemas. |
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| - ValidSchema- a schema object that has been converted to a parse tree |
| (with some sanity checks). |
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| - ValidSchema.toJson() writes the schema as a json object. |
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| - ValidatingSerializer/ValidatingParser- check that reads/writes |
| match the expected schema type (more expensive than the raw |
| serializer/parser but they detect errors, and allow dynamic |
| discovery of parsed data/attributes). |
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| - Compiler (compileJsonSchema())- converts a Json string schema to a |
| ValidSchema. |
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| - Code Generation (experimental) - given a schema it generates C++ |
| objects of the same data types, and the code to serialize and parse |
| it. |
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| What's missing: Defaults are not yet supported. And the file and rpc |
| containers are not yet implemented. Documentation, sparse. |
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| INSTRUCTIONS |
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| To compile requires boost headers, and the boost regex library. |
| Additionally, to generate the avro spec compiler requires flex and bison. |
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| There is a configure file generated by autoconf. Use: |
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| ./configure |
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| to generate a Makefile. |
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| If it doesn't work, either you are missing some packages (boost, flex or bison), |
| or you need to help configure locate them. |
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| Type ./configure --help if you need help. |
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| If the Makefile is configured correctly, then you can make and run tests: |
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| make |
| make check |
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| Before running tests, you may need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the boost |
| libraries if they are staged instead of installed. |
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| The install target is not yet set up (coming soon!) |
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