https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Best-Practice-JSON-to-Avro-data-type-preserving/m-p/148391#M110917 <P>i tried on 1.1 it worked fine. </P><P><A href="https://community.cloudera.com/legacyfs/online/attachments/39695-json2avro.xml">json2avro.xml</A></P><PRE>{ "type": "record", "name": "testdata", "fields": [ { "name": "timestamp", "type": {"type":"string","logicalType":"timestamp-millis"} }, { "name": "c1", "type": "double" }, { "name": "c2", "type": "double" }, { "name": "c3", "type": "double" }, { "name": "c4", "type": "double" }, { "name": "c5", "type": "double" }, { "name": "c6", "type": "double" }, { "name": "c7", "type": "double" }, { "name": "c8", "type": "double" }, { "name": "c9", "type": "double" }, { "name": "c10", "type": "double" }, { "name": "c11", "type": "double" }, { "name": "postal_code", "type": "string" }, { "name": "country", "type": "string" } ] } <BR /></PRE> Sat, 07 Oct 2017 02:42:17 GMT knarayanan 2017-10-07T02:42:17Z