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Part of https://emqx.atlassian.net/browse/EMQX-9251 This ports part of the Schema Registry app from 4.x to 5.0. Here, only support for Avro is added. Subsequent PRs will follow to add support for other formats.
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EMQX Schema Registry
EMQX Schema Registry for managing various of schemas for decoding/encoding messages.
To use schema in rule engine, a schema name should be passed to the SQL functions that decode/encode data, like:
SELECT
schema_decode('sensor_notify', payload) as payload
FROM
"message.publish"
WHERE
topic = 't/1'
Using schema registry with rule engine
+---------------------------+
| |
Events/Msgs | | Events/Msgs
--------------------> EMQX |------------------>
| |
| |
+-------------|-------------+
|
HOOK |
|
+-------------v-------------+ +----------+
| | Data | |
| Rule Engine ------------- Backends |
| | | |
+------|-------------|------+ +----------+
|^ |^
Decode|| ||Encode
|| ||
+------v|------------v|-----+
| |
| Schema Registry |
| |
+---------------------------+
Architecture
| |
Decode | [APIs] | Encode
| |
| | [Registry]
+------v--------------v------+
REGISTER SCHEMA | |
INSTANCE | | +--------+
-------------------> | | |
[Management APIs] | Schema Registry ------ Schema |
| | | |
| | +--------+
| |
+----------------------------+
/ | \
+---/---+ +---|----+ +---\---+
| | | | | |
[Decoders] | Avro | |ProtoBuf| |Others |
| | | | | |
+-------+ +--------+ +-------+
- Register schema instance: adds a new instance of a schema of a certain type. For example, when the user may have several Avro or Protobuf schemas that they wish to use with different data flows.