# avro_derive
A proc-macro module for automatically deriving the avro schema for structs or enums. The macro produces the logic necessary to implement the `AvroSchema` trait for the type.
```rust
pub trait AvroSchema {
// constructs the schema for the type
fn get_schema() -> Schema;
}
```
## How-to use
Add the "derive" feature to your apache-avro dependency inside cargo.toml
```
apache-avro = { version = "X.Y.Z", features = ["derive"] }
```
Add to your data model
```rust
#[derive(AvroSchema)]
struct Test {
a: i64,
b: String,
}
```
### Example
```rust
use apache_avro::Writer;
#[derive(Debug, Serialize, AvroSchema)]
struct Test {
a: i64,
b: String,
}
// derived schema, always valid or code fails to compile with a descriptive message
let schema = Test::get_schema();
let mut writer = Writer::new(&schema, Vec::new());
let test = Test {
a: 27,
b: "foo".to_owned(),
};
writer.append_ser(test).unwrap();
let encoded = writer.into_inner();
```
### Compatibility Notes
This module is designed to work in concert with the Serde implemenation. If your use case dictates needing to manually convert to a `Value` type in order to encode then the derived schema may not be correct.