I would like to present a new library for convenient work with Avro serialization – Avrora.

It supports encoding/decoding:

1. Avro Object Container Files format
2. Confluent Schema Registry format
3. Plain messages format (when you just want a message body)

In the case of the schema registry, it will also a register new schema. Here is an example with Object Container Files.

Let’s say you have this Payment schema stored in a file priv/schemas/io/confluent/Payment.avsc

{
  "type": "record",
  "name": "Payment",
  "namespace": "io.confluent",
  "fields": [
    {
      "name": "id",
      "type": "string"
    },
    {
      "name": "amount",
      "type": "double"
    }
  ]
}

To encode payment message with Payment.avsc schema

iex> {:ok, pid} = Avrora.start_link()
iex> message = %{"id" => "tx-1", "amount" => 15.99}
iex> {:ok, encoded} = Avrora.encode(message, schema_name: "io.confluent.Payment")

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  71, 225, 250, 47, 64, 138, 124, 66, 49, 157, 51, 242, 3, 33, 52,
  161, 147, 221, 174, 114, 48>>

iex> {:ok, decoded} = Avrora.decode(message, schema_name: "io.confluent.Payment")

%{"id" => "tx-1", "amount" => 15.99}

Easy as it should be! Yaw ❤️