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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.examples.pythonconverters
+
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer
+
+import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
+
+import org.apache.avro.generic.{GenericArray, GenericFixed, GenericRecord}
+import org.apache.avro.mapred.AvroWrapper
+import org.apache.avro.Schema
+import org.apache.avro.Schema.Type._
+import org.apache.avro.util.Utf8
+
+import org.apache.spark.api.python.Converter
+import org.apache.spark.SparkException
+
+
+/**
+ * Implementation of [[org.apache.spark.api.python.Converter]] that converts an
+ * Avro Wrapper to Java object. It only works with Avro's Generic Data Model.
+ */
+class AvroWrapperToJavaConverter extends Converter[Any, Any] {
+  override def convert(obj: Any): Any = obj.asInstanceOf[AvroWrapper[_]].datum() match {
+    case record: GenericRecord => unpackRecord(record, None)
+    case other => throw new SparkException(
+      s"Unsupported top-level Avro data type ${other.getClass.getName}")
+  }
+
+  def unpackRecord(obj: Any, readerSchema: Option[Schema]): java.util.Map[String, Any] = {
+    val record = obj.asInstanceOf[GenericRecord]
+    val map = new java.util.HashMap[String, Any]
+    readerSchema.getOrElse(record.getSchema).getFields.foreach { case f =>
+        map.put(f.name, fromAvro(record.get(f.name), f.schema))
+    }
+    map
+  }
+
+  def unpackMap(obj: Any, schema: Schema): java.util.Map[String, Any] = {
+    val map = new java.util.HashMap[String, Any]
+    obj.asInstanceOf[Map[Utf8, _]].foreach { case (key, value) =>
+      map.put(key.toString, fromAvro(value, schema.getValueType))
+    }
+    map
+  }
+
+  def unpackFixed(obj: Any, schema: Schema): Array[Byte] = {
+    unpackBytes(obj.asInstanceOf[GenericFixed].bytes())
+  }
+
+  def unpackBytes(bytes: Array[Byte]): Array[Byte] = {
+    val bytearray = new Array[Byte](bytes.length)
+    System.arraycopy(bytes, 0, bytearray, 0, bytes.length)
+    bytearray
+  }
+
+  def unpackArray(obj: Any, schema: Schema): java.util.List[Any] = {
+    val list = new java.util.ArrayList[Any]
+    obj.asInstanceOf[GenericArray[_]].foreach { element =>
+      list.add(fromAvro(element, schema.getElementType))
+    }
+    list
+  }
+
+  def unpackUnion(obj: Any, schema: Schema): Any = {
+    schema.getTypes.toList match {
+      case List(s) => fromAvro(obj, s)
+      case List(n, s) if n.getType == NULL => fromAvro(obj, s)
+      case List(s, n) if n.getType == NULL => fromAvro(obj, s)
+      case _ => throw new SparkException(
+        "Unions may only consist of a concrete type and null")
+    }
+  }
+
+  def fromAvro(obj: Any, schema: Schema): Any = {
+    if (obj == null) {
+      return null
+    }
+    schema.getType match {
+      case UNION   => unpackUnion(obj, schema)
+      case ARRAY   => unpackArray(obj, schema)
+      case FIXED   => unpackFixed(obj, schema)
+      case BYTES   => unpackBytes(obj.asInstanceOf[ByteBuffer].array())
+      case RECORD  => unpackRecord(obj, Option(schema))
+      case MAP     => unpackMap(obj, schema)
+      case STRING  => obj.toString
+      case ENUM    => obj.toString
+      case NULL    => obj
+      case BOOLEAN => obj
+      case DOUBLE  => obj
+      case FLOAT   => obj
+      case INT     => obj
+      case LONG    => obj
+      case other   => throw new SparkException(
+        s"Unsupported Avro schema type ${other.getName}")
+    }
+  }
+}