Namespace AvroSharp.Schemas

The schema model: AvroSchema and its subclasses, such as RecordSchema, UnionSchema and EnumSchema, and the logical types (AvroLogicalType).

Parse schema JSON with AvroSchema.Parse, or with an AvroSchemaParser when later schemas refer to named types from earlier ones. AvroSchemaParseOptions sets the limits and the validation.
AvroSchema.CanonicalForm gives the Parsing Canonical Form, and SchemaFingerprint its CRC-64-AVRO, MD5 and SHA-256 fingerprints.
AvroSchemaCompatibility checks whether data written with one schema can be read with another, with every issue and its path, or a new version against earlier ones at a schema registry's level.
AvroNames holds the validation rules for names, namespaces and enum symbols.

AvroCompatibilityCheck: One pair checked by CheckVersions(AvroSchema, IReadOnlyList<AvroSchema>, AvroCompatibilityLevel, AvroCompatibilityOptions?).

AvroCompatibilityIssue: One reason data written with one schema cannot be read with another, or a warning about how it is read.

AvroCompatibilityReport: The result of checking a new schema against earlier versions at a AvroCompatibilityLevel.

AvroCompatibilityResult: The result of Check(AvroSchema, AvroSchema, AvroCompatibilityOptions?).

AvroLogicalType: A logical type annotating a primitive or fixed schema. Parameterless logical types are singletons; decimal is represented by DecimalLogicalType.

AvroSchema: An immutable Avro schema. Use Parse(string, AvroSchemaParseOptions?) to read schema JSON, or construct the concrete schema types directly.

AvroSchemaCompatibility: Checks whether data written with one schema can be read with another, and why not: every incompatibility, with where it is, and warnings about differences the specification allows that can change the values read.

AvroSchemaParser: Parses Avro schema JSON. A parser remembers the named schemas it has parsed, so later schemas (for example other .avsc files) can refer to them by name.

DecimalLogicalType: The decimal logical type: an arbitrary-precision decimal stored as a scaled two's-complement integer.

PrimitiveSchema: A primitive schema: null, boolean, int, long, float, double, bytes or string, optionally annotated with a logical type.

SchemaFingerprint: Schema fingerprints computed over the Parsing Canonical Form, as described by the specification.

SchemaName: The full name of a named schema (record, enum or fixed): a simple name and an optional namespace.

AvroCompatibilityKind: The kind of an AvroCompatibilityIssue: an incompatibility, or a warning (IsWarning) about a difference the specification allows that can change the values read. The six named as Java's SchemaIncompatibilityType values mean the same. Later versions may add kinds of either sort, so code should not rely on the values' order, and a new warning can make a check with WarningsAsErrors fail.

AvroCompatibilityLevel: A schema registry's compatibility levels, as Confluent Schema Registry defines them.

AvroCompatibilityVerdict: Whether data written with one schema can be read with another (AvroSchemaCompatibility): a fact about the schemas, which options don't change. The values are ordered from best to worst, and a report's verdict is the worst of its pairs'.

AvroLogicalTypeKind: The logical types defined by the Avro 1.12 specification.