https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/NiFi-Applying-an-Avro-Schema-in-ConvertCSVToAvro/m-p/148549#M111075 <P>To get the current AVRO Tools</P><P>wget <A href="http://apache.claz.org/avro/avro-1.8.0/java/avro-tools-1.8.0.jar" target="_blank">http://apache.claz.org/avro/avro-1.8.0/java/avro-tools-1.8.0.jar</A></P><P>There's some good documentation here: <A href="https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.8.0/gettingstartedjava.html#Compiling+the+schema" target="_blank">https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.8.0/gettingstartedjava.html#Compiling+the+schema</A></P><P>This article helped me:</P><P><A href="http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2013/03/17/reading-and-writing-avro-files-from-the-command-line/" target="_blank">http://www.michael-noll.com/blog/2013/03/17/reading-and-writing-avro-files-from-the-command-line/</A></P> Wed, 27 Apr 2016 19:07:40 GMT TimothySpann 2016-04-27T19:07:40Z