How to get Avro Schema?

[kakoc]

Hi

I didn't find any example how I can retrieve a schema(AvroSchema type) for some topic.
to_avro_schema, get_schema_and_id, get_schema are all private.
Does it make sense to make some of them public? Or probably I missed smth and it's possible now to retrieve Avro Schema using this crate?

[gklijs]

As of now this library's main purpose is to do the conversion of data using Schema Registry, you can provide a schema when doing the conversion and it will be registered if needed.

I do consider splitting this library, and have a seperate Schema Registry Client, that allows for getting just the schema and such, independent of (de) serializing data. I'm not entirely, sure if that would be worth the effort.

[gklijs]

I gave it some thought and I'm thinking about adding a feature like sr-client that would give you a clean API to get/set schema's by SubjectNameStrategy or subject where you could get the latest, or a specific version. Would that be helpful?

[ultrabug]

Why couldn't we just expose the cache from the AvroDecoder and schema id on the DecodeResult struct instead?

I must admit I hoped I found it myself there but didn't, yet that's some information that exist AFAIK

[ultrabug]

See, I asked for the same stuff here #62 (reply in thread)

[gklijs]

It's already kind of intermediate, and than you would first need to get it in the cache.