Pulsar support for Apache Avro library as published by Apache

[aditya7k]

Is your enhancement request related to a problem? Please describe.

We have a requirement to use both Kafka and Pulsar with Apache Avro Schemas. This is not possible currently as Pulsar uses it's own shaded (masked) version of apache avro implementation, which looks identical to Apache Avro.

Describe the solution you'd like

The enhancement is for Pulsar to work directly with Apache's Avro implementation.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Currently we are defining Schema's using Apache Avro Generic Record and then writing conversions to work with Pulsar's shaded version.

Additional context

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We have written converters to allow schemas which serialize to org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord to allow serialization to
org.apache.pulsar.shade.org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord.

[sijie]

@adityaIndexlabs if you use pulsar-client-original library, you will not use the shaded library.

[sollecitom]

@sijie does pulsar-client-original have a org.apache.pulsar.client.api.Schema<org.apache.avro.generic.GenericRecord>? That's what's needed to support native Avro records.

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