Connecting to Avro

Establishing a Connection shows how to authenticate to Avro and configure any necessary connection properties. You can also configure cmdlet capabilities through the available Connection properties, from data modeling to firewall traversal. The Advanced Settings section shows how to set up more advanced configurations and troubleshoot connection errors.

Connecting from PowerShell

The CData Cmdlets PowerShell Module for Avro provides a familiar way to interact with Avro from PowerShell. The cmdlets provide a standard PowerShell interface and an SQL interface to live data. The CData cmdlets enable you to work with Avro using standard PowerShell objects; you can chain the cmdlets to each other or other cmdlets in pipelines. The cmdlets also support PowerShell debug streams.

Data Manipulation with Cmdlets

See Establishing a Connection to learn how to get started with the Connect-Avro cmdlet. You can then pass the AvroConnection object returned to other cmdlets for accessing data:

• Select-Avro
• Add-Avro

Executing SQL from PowerShell

You can execute any SQL query with the Invoke-Avro cmdlet.

Accessing Debug Output from Streams

See Capturing Errors and Logging to obtain the debug output through PowerShell streams.

PowerShell Version Support

The standard cmdlets are supported in PowerShell 2, 3, 4, and 5.

Avro Version Support

Avro Serialization Encodings

Apache Avro specifies two serialization encodings: binary and JSON. The cmdlet only parses Avro files that are encoded in Binary.