Exception while Deserialize avro data using ConfluentSchemaRegistry? - apache-kafka

Question

I am new to flink and Kafka. I am trying to deserialize avro data using Confluent Schema registry. I have already installed flink and Kafka on ec2 machine. Also, the "test" topic has been created before running code.
Code Path: https://gist.github.com/mandar2174/5dc13350b296abf127b92d0697c320f2
The code does the following operation as part of implementation:
1) Create a flink DataStream object using a list of user element. (User class is avro generated class)
2) Write the Datastream source to Kafka using AvroSerializationSchema.
3) Read the data from Kafka using ConfluentRegistryAvroDeserializationSchema by reading the schema from Confluent Schema registry.
Command to run flink executable jar:
./bin/flink run -c com.streaming.example.ConfluentSchemaRegistryExample /opt/flink-1.7.2/kafka-flink-stream-processing-assembly-0.1.jar
Exception while running code:
java.io.IOException: Unknown data format. Magic number does not match
at org.apache.flink.formats.avro.registry.confluent.ConfluentSchemaRegistryCoder.readSchema(ConfluentSchemaRegistryCoder.java:55)
at org.apache.flink.formats.avro.RegistryAvroDeserializationSchema.deserialize(RegistryAvroDeserializationSchema.java:66)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.util.serialization.KeyedDeserializationSchemaWrapper.deserialize(KeyedDeserializationSchemaWrapper.java:44)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.internal.KafkaFetcher.runFetchLoop(KafkaFetcher.java:140)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.connectors.kafka.FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.run(FlinkKafkaConsumerBase.java:665)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSource.run(StreamSource.java:94)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.api.operators.StreamSource.run(StreamSource.java:58)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.SourceStreamTask.run(SourceStreamTask.java:99)
at org.apache.flink.streaming.runtime.tasks.StreamTask.invoke(StreamTask.java:300)
at org.apache.flink.runtime.taskmanager.Task.run(Task.java:704)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Avro schema which I am using for User class is as below:
{
"type": "record",
"name": "User",
"namespace": "com.streaming.example",
"fields": [
{
"name": "name",
"type": "string"
},
{
"name": "favorite_number",
"type": [
"int",
"null"
]
},
{
"name": "favorite_color",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
]
}
Can someone point out what steps I am missing as part of deserializing avro data using confluent Kafka schema registry?

Answer 1

How you wrote the Avro data needs to use the Registry as well in order for the deserializer that depends on it to work.
But this is an open PR in Flink, still for adding a ConfluentRegistryAvroSerializationSchema class
The workaround, I believe would be to use AvroDeserializationSchema, which does not depend on the Registry.
If you did want to use the Registry in the producer code, then you'd have to do so outside of Flink until that PR is merged.