This package provides Avro serialization in Hadoop. This can be used to serialize/deserialize Avro types in Hadoop.

Use {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.avro.AvroSpecificSerialization} for serialization of classes generated by Avro's 'specific' compiler.

Use {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.avro.AvroReflectSerialization} for other classes. {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.avro.AvroReflectSerialization} work for any class which is either in the package list configured via {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.avro.AvroReflectSerialization#AVRO_REFLECT_PACKAGES} or implement {@link org.apache.hadoop.io.serializer.avro.AvroReflectSerializable} interface.