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kafkajs / confluent-schema-registry

is a library that makes it easier to interact with the Confluent schema registry
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@kafkajs/confluent-schema-registry
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Move to 'avro-js' from 'avsc' #241

Closed snird closed 1 year ago

snird commented 1 year ago

avsc: https://www.npmjs.com/package/avsc avro-js: https://www.npmjs.com/package/avro-js

avsc is lagging way behind in the protocol implementation. Its implementation is 1.8-ish compatible: https://github.com/mtth/avsc/issues/238

And it isn't seem to be worked on anymore.

avro-js is the official implementation, and is fully compatible with the latest 1.11.1: https://github.com/apache/avro/tree/master/lang/js

The API of the libraries is compatible. I hot-switched for avro-js in this fork: https://github.com/snird/confluent-schema-registry-avro-js (not ready or aimed to be ready for merge)

It works as expected and working on production load at the moment.

I see no reason not to move to avro-js in this repo.

potyl commented 1 year ago

I see that this issue is closed but there doesn't seem a corresponding PR. Is avro-js going to be replacing avsc?

@snird the repo https://github.com/snird/confluent-schema-registry-avro-js is gone.

snird commented 1 year ago

Avro-js does not support BigInt or something like that for big numbers. So even though they implemented a more recent spec, it is effectively unusable in a production environment. That's why I deleted this