Fields tab

Avro Output Fields tab

Note: The table in the Fields tab defines the following fields that make up the Avro schema created by this step:

Field	Description
Avro path	The name of the field as it will appear in the Avro data and schema files.
Name	The name of the PDI field.
Avro type	Defines the Avro data type of the field.
Precision	Applies only to the Decimal Avro type, the total number of digits in the number. The default is 10.
Scale	Applies only to the Decimal Avro type, the number of digits after the decimal point. The default is 0.
Default value	The default value of the field if it is null or empty.
Null	Specify if the field can contain null values.

Note: To avoid a transformation failure, make sure the Default value field contains values for all fields where Null is set to No.

Note: As shown in the table below, you can click Get Fields to populate the fields from the incoming PDI stream or these fields can be defined manually. During the retrieval of fields, a PDI type is converted to an appropriate Avro type. If desired, you can change the converted field type to another Avro type.

PDI Type	Avro Type
InetAddress	String
String	String
TimeStamp	TimeStamp
Binary	Bytes
BigNumber	Decimal
Boolean	Boolean
Date	Date
Integer	Long
Number	Double