## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
In the dev list, we can still discuss whether the next version is 2.5.0 or 3.0.0. Let us first bump the master branch version to `2.5.0-SNAPSHOT`.
## How was this patch tested?
N/A
Closes#22426 from gatorsmile/bumpVersionMaster.
Authored-by: gatorsmile <gatorsmile@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: gatorsmile <gatorsmile@gmail.com>
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
After rethinking on the artifactId, I think it should be `spark-avro` instead of `spark-sql-avro`, which is simpler, and consistent with the previous artifactId. I think we need to change it before Spark 2.4 release.
Also a tiny change: use `spark.sessionState.newHadoopConf()` to get the hadoop configuration, thus the related hadoop configurations in SQLConf will come into effect.
## How was this patch tested?
Unit test
Author: Gengliang Wang <gengliang.wang@databricks.com>
Closes#21866 from gengliangwang/avro_followup.
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
1. Add a new function from_avro for parsing a binary column of avro format and converting it into its corresponding catalyst value.
2. Add a new function to_avro for converting a column into binary of avro format with the specified schema.
I created #21774 for this, but it failed the build https://amplab.cs.berkeley.edu/jenkins/view/Spark%20QA%20Compile/job/spark-master-compile-maven-hadoop-2.6/7902/
Additional changes In this PR:
1. Add `scalacheck` dependency in pom.xml to resolve the failure.
2. Update the `log4j.properties` to make it consistent with other modules.
## How was this patch tested?
Unit test
Compile with different commands:
```
./build/mvn --force -DzincPort=3643 -DskipTests -Phadoop-2.6 -Phive-thriftserver -Pkinesis-asl -Pspark-ganglia-lgpl -Pmesos -Pyarn compile test-compile
./build/mvn --force -DzincPort=3643 -DskipTests -Phadoop-2.7 -Phive-thriftserver -Pkinesis-asl -Pspark-ganglia-lgpl -Pmesos -Pyarn compile test-compile
./build/mvn --force -DzincPort=3643 -DskipTests -Phadoop-3.1 -Phive-thriftserver -Pkinesis-asl -Pspark-ganglia-lgpl -Pmesos -Pyarn compile test-compile
```
Author: Gengliang Wang <gengliang.wang@databricks.com>
Closes#21838 from gengliangwang/from_and_to_avro.
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Apache Avro (https://avro.apache.org) is a popular data serialization format. It is widely used in the Spark and Hadoop ecosystem, especially for Kafka-based data pipelines. Using the external package https://github.com/databricks/spark-avro, Spark SQL can read and write the avro data. Making spark-Avro built-in can provide a better experience for first-time users of Spark SQL and structured streaming. We expect the built-in Avro data source can further improve the adoption of structured streaming.
The proposal is to inline code from spark-avro package (https://github.com/databricks/spark-avro). The target release is Spark 2.4.
[Built-in AVRO Data Source In Spark 2.4.pdf](https://github.com/apache/spark/files/2181511/Built-in.AVRO.Data.Source.In.Spark.2.4.pdf)
## How was this patch tested?
Unit test
Author: Gengliang Wang <gengliang.wang@databricks.com>
Closes#21742 from gengliangwang/export_avro.