A CLI util for deserializing Confluent-Schema-Registry-Encoded-Avro-Values into JSON, you know, for humans.

Usage

a2j --help

cat some-file.avro | a2j --base-url http://localhost:8081 | jq

kafkacat \
  -X security.protocol=ssl \
  -X ssl.key.location=./service.key \
  -X ssl.certificate.location=./service.cert \
  -X ssl.ca.location=./ca.pem \
  -b kafka.mycorp.com:13581 \
  -t my_topic_v1 \
  -o beginning \
| a2j \
  --url https://schema-registry.mycorp.com:13584 \
  --username my_username \
  --password my_p@ssw0rd \
| jq