Avro requires that the types of values passed to its JavaAPI match the types in the schema.
Returns an row from the given avro record using the schema present in the record.
Returns an row from the given avro record using the schema present in the record. The row values will be created in the order that the record schema fields are declared.
Marshalls rows as avro records using the given write schema.
Avro requires that the types of values passed to its JavaAPI match the types in the schema. So if you have an Avro Boolean field, you can't pass a String "true" but it must be true. So it's less "forgiving" than JDBC for example.
An AvroConverter will convert a JVM type into a suitable Avro type. The avro type being specified by the type parameter.