Dataclasses Avro Schema Generator

Generate avro schemas from python dataclasses. Code generation from avro schemas. Serialize/Deserialize python instances with avro schemas

Requirements

python 3.8+

Installation

with pip or poetry:

pip install dataclasses-avroschema or poetry add dataclasses-avroschema

Extras

pydantic: pip install 'dataclasses-avroschema[pydantic]' or poetry add dataclasses-avroschema --extras "pydantic"
faust-streaming: pip install 'dataclasses-avroschema[faust]' or poetry add dataclasses-avroschema --extras "faust"
faker: pip install 'dataclasses-avroschema[faker]' or poetry add dataclasses-avroschema --extras "faker"

Note: You can install all extra dependencies with pip install dataclasses-avroschema[faust, pydantic, faker] or poetry add dataclasses-avroschema --extras "pydantic faust faker"

CLI

To install avro schemas cli install dc-avro

pip install 'dataclasses-avroschema[cli]' or poetry add dataclasses-avroschema --with cli

Documentation

https://marcosschroh.github.io/dataclasses-avroschema/

Usage

Generating the avro schema

from dataclasses import dataclass
import enum

import typing

from dataclasses_avroschema import AvroModel, types


class FavoriteColor(enum.Enum):
    BLUE = "BLUE"
    YELLOW = "YELLOW"
    GREEN = "GREEN"


@dataclass
class User(AvroModel):
    "An User"
    name: str
    age: int
    pets: typing.List[str]
    accounts: typing.Dict[str, int]
    favorite_colors: FavoriteColor
    country: str = "Argentina"
    address: str = None

    class Meta:
        namespace = "User.v1"
        aliases = ["user-v1", "super user"]

User.avro_schema()

'{
    "type": "record",
    "name": "User",
    "doc": "An User",
    "namespace": "User.v1",
    "aliases": ["user-v1", "super user"],
    "fields": [
        {"name": "name", "type": "string"},
        {"name": "age", "type": "long"},
        {"name": "pets", "type": "array", "items": "string"},
        {"name": "accounts", "type": "map", "values": "long"},
        {"name": "favorite_color", "type": {"type": "enum", "name": "FavoriteColor", "symbols": ["Blue", "Yellow", "Green"]}}
        {"name": "country", "type": "string", "default": "Argentina"},
        {"name": "address", "type": ["null", "string"], "default": null}
    ]
}'

User.avro_schema_to_python()

{
    "type": "record",
    "name": "User",
    "doc": "An User",
    "namespace": "User.v1",
    "aliases": ["user-v1", "super user"],
    "fields": [
        {"name": "name", "type": "string"},
        {"name": "age", "type": "long"},
        {"name": "pets", "type": {"type": "array", "items": "string", "name": "pet"}},
        {"name": "accounts", "type": {"type": "map", "values": "long", "name": "account"}},
        {"name": "favorite_colors", "type": {"type": "enum", "name": "FavoriteColor", "symbols": ["BLUE", "YELLOW", "GREEN"]}},
        {"name": "country", "type": "string", "default": "Argentina"},
        {"name": "address", "type": ["null", "string"], "default": None}
    ],
}

Serialization to avro or avro-json and json payload

For serialization is neccesary to use python class/dataclasses instance

from dataclasses import dataclass

import typing

from dataclasses_avroschema import AvroModel


@dataclass
class Address(AvroModel):
    "An Address"
    street: str
    street_number: int


@dataclass
class User(AvroModel):
    "User with multiple Address"
    name: str
    age: int
    addresses: typing.List[Address]

address_data = {
    "street": "test",
    "street_number": 10,
}

# create an Address instance
address = Address(**address_data)

data_user = {
    "name": "john",
    "age": 20,
    "addresses": [address],
}

# create an User instance
user = User(**data_user)

user.serialize()
# >>> b"\x08john(\x02\x08test\x14\x00"

user.serialize(serialization_type="avro-json")
# >>> b'{"name": "john", "age": 20, "addresses": [{"street": "test", "street_number": 10}]}'

# Get the json from the instance
user.to_json()
# >>> '{"name": "john", "age": 20, "addresses": [{"street": "test", "street_number": 10}]}'

# Get a python dict
user.to_dict()
# >>> {"name": "john", "age": 20, "addresses": [{"street": "test", "street_number": 10}]}

Deserialization

Deserialization could take place with an instance dataclass or the dataclass itself. Can return the dict representation or a new class instance

import typing
import dataclasses

from dataclasses_avroschema import AvroModel


@dataclasses.dataclass
class Address(AvroModel):
    "An Address"
    street: str
    street_number: int

@dataclasses.dataclass
class User(AvroModel):
    "User with multiple Address"
    name: str
    age: int
    addresses: typing.List[Address]

avro_binary = b"\x08john(\x02\x08test\x14\x00"
avro_json_binary = b'{"name": "john", "age": 20, "addresses": [{"street": "test", "street_number": 10}]}'

# return a new class instance!!
User.deserialize(avro_binary)
# >>>> User(name='john', age=20, addresses=[Address(street='test', street_number=10)])

# return a python dict
User.deserialize(avro_binary, create_instance=False)
# >>> {"name": "john", "age": 20, "addresses": [{"street": "test", "street_number": 10}]}

# return a new class instance!!
User.deserialize(avro_json_binary, serialization_type="avro-json")
# >>>> User(name='john', age=20, addresses=[Address(street='test', street_number=10)])

# return a python dict
User.deserialize(avro_json_binary, serialization_type="avro-json", create_instance=False)
# >>> {"name": "john", "age": 20, "addresses": [{"street": "test", "street_number": 10}]}

Pydantic integration

To add dataclasses-avroschema functionality to pydantic you only need to replace BaseModel by AvroBaseModel:

import typing
import enum
import dataclasses

from dataclasses_avroschema.pydantic import AvroBaseModel

from pydantic import Field


class FavoriteColor(str, enum.Enum):
    BLUE = "BLUE"
    YELLOW = "YELLOW"
    GREEN = "GREEN"


@dataclasses.dataclass
class UserAdvance(AvroBaseModel):
    name: str
    age: int
    pets: typing.List[str] = Field(default_factory=lambda: ["dog", "cat"])
    accounts: typing.Dict[str, int] = Field(default_factory=lambda: {"key": 1})
    has_car: bool = False
    favorite_colors: FavoriteColor = FavoriteColor.BLUE
    country: str = "Argentina"
    address: str = None

    class Meta:
        schema_doc = False


# Avro schema
UserAdvance.avro_schema()
'{
    "type": "record",
    "name": "UserAdvance",
    "fields": [
        {"name": "name", "type": "string"},
        {"name": "age", "type": "long"},
        {"name": "pets", "type": {"type": "array", "items": "string", "name": "pet"}, "default": ["dog", "cat"]},
        {"name": "accounts", "type": {"type": "map", "values": "long", "name": "account"}, "default": {"key": 1}},
        {"name": "has_car", "type": "boolean", "default": false},
        {"name": "favorite_colors", "type": {"type": "enum", "name": "favorite_color", "symbols": ["BLUE", "YELLOW", "GREEN"]}, "default": "BLUE"},
        {"name": "country", "type": "string", "default": "Argentina"},
        {"name": "address", "type": ["null", "string"], "default": null}
    ]
}'

# Json schema
UserAdvance.json_schema()

{
    "title": "UserAdvance",
    "description": "UserAdvance(*, name: str, age: int, pets: List[str] = None, ...",
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "name": {"title": "Name", "type": "string"},
        "age": {"title": "Age", "type": "integer"},
        "pets": {"title": "Pets", "type": "array", "items": {"type": "string"}},
        "accounts": {"title": "Accounts", "type": "object", "additionalProperties": {"type": "integer"}},
        "has_car": {"title": "Has Car", "default": false, "type": "boolean"},
        "favorite_colors": {"default": "BLUE", "allOf": [{"$ref": "#/definitions/FavoriteColor"}]},
        "country": {"title": "Country", "default": "Argentina", "type": "string"},
        "address": {"title": "Address", "type": "string"}}, "required": ["name", "age"], "definitions": {"FavoriteColor": {"title": "FavoriteColor", "description": "An enumeration.", "enum": ["BLUE", "YELLOW", "GREEN"], "type": "string"}}
}

user = UserAdvance(name="bond", age=50)

# pydantic
user.dict()
# >>> {'name': 'bond', 'age': 50, 'pets': ['dog', 'cat'], 'accounts': {'key': 1}, 'has_car': False, 'favorite_colors': <FavoriteColor.BLUE: 'BLUE'>, 'country': 'Argentina', 'address': None}

# pydantic
user.json()
# >>> '{"name": "bond", "age": 50, "pets": ["dog", "cat"], "accounts": {"key": 1}, "has_car": false, "favorite_colors": "BLUE", "country": "Argentina", "address": null}'

# pydantic
user = UserAdvance(name="bond")

# ValidationError: 1 validation error for UserAdvance
# age
# field required (type=value_error.missing)


# dataclasses-avroschema
event = user.serialize()
print(event)
# >>> b'\x08bondd\x04\x06dog\x06cat\x00\x02\x06key\x02\x00\x00\x00\x12Argentina\x00'

UserAdvance.deserialize(data=event)
# >>> UserAdvance(name='bond', age=50, pets=['dog', 'cat'], accounts={'key': 1}, has_car=False, favorite_colors=<FavoriteColor.BLUE: 'BLUE'>, country='Argentina', address=None)

Examples with python streaming drivers (kafka and redis)

Under examples folder you can find 3 differents kafka examples, one with aiokafka (async) showing the simplest use case when a AvroModel instance is serialized and sent it thorught kafka, and the event is consumed. The other two examples are sync using the kafka-python driver, where the avro-json serialization and schema evolution (FULL compatibility) is shown. Also, there are two redis examples using redis streams with walrus and redisgears-py

Factory and fixtures

Dataclasses Avro Schema also includes a factory feature, so you can generate fast python instances and use them, for example, to test your data streaming pipelines. Instances can be generated using the fake method.

Note: This feature is not enabled by default and requires you have the faker extra installed. You may install it with pip install 'dataclasses-avroschema[faker]'

import typing
import dataclasses

from dataclasses_avroschema import AvroModel


@dataclasses.dataclass
class Address(AvroModel):
    "An Address"
    street: str
    street_number: int


@dataclasses.dataclass
class User(AvroModel):
    "User with multiple Address"
    name: str
    age: int
    addresses: typing.List[Address]


Address.fake()
# >>>> Address(street='PxZJILDRgbXyhWrrPWxQ', street_number=2067)

User.fake()
# >>>> User(name='VGSBbOGfSGjkMDnefHIZ', age=8974, addresses=[Address(street='vNpPYgesiHUwwzGcmMiS', street_number=4790)])