• CLI reference

create

Create an Avro schema for a .NET type.

Examples

Create a schema for a built-in type

$ dotnet avro create --type System.DateTime
"string"

Create a schema for a type in a compiled assembly

$ dotnet avro create --assembly ./out/Example.Models.dll --type Example.Models.ExampleModel
{"name":"Example.Models.ExampleModel",type":"record",fields:[{"name":"Text","type":"string"}]}

Options

-a, --assembly

The name of or path to an assembly to load (multiple space-separated values accepted).

--enums-as-ints

Whether enums should be represented as integers.

--nullable-references

Whether reference types should be nullable.

--temporal-behavior

Whether timestamps should be represented with "string" schemas (ISO 8601) or "long" schemas (timestamp logical types). Options are iso8601, epochmilliseconds, and epochmicroseconds.

-t, --type

The type to build a schema for.