Hi Timothy thanks for this detailed article , we have a avro schema which is very long (116 lines) so using schema builder to build the entire schema may not be best option in our case, Could you please guide us on how can i approach this our aim is to read avro messages from kafka and convert them to json and write to a datasource also i posted the question for the same https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/61827/read-avro-messages-consumed-using-spark-streaming.html ... View more