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How to Encode and Decode Avro Data in Python (Roundtrip)

Serialize a Python dict to Avro binary bytes and decode it back using the fastavro-compatible avro library.

avro serialization encode
Python
import io
import json
from avro.schema import parse
from avro.io import DatumWriter, DatumReader, BinaryEncoder, BinaryDecoder

def avro_roundtrip(schema_json, data):
    schema = parse(json.dumps(schema_json))
    bytes_writer = io.BytesIO()
    encoder = BinaryEncoder(bytes_writer)
    writer = DatumWriter(schema)
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