does not support avro union, i.e., .avsc file is a JSON array?

[300LiterPropofol]

Hello,

I am doing in command line

avro_validator union_schema.avsc producing_message.json

My <union_schema.avsc> is a JSON array, with different dependent objects inside. I can give an example below.

[
{
    "type": "record",
    "namespace": "com.company.model",
    "name": "AddressRecord",
    "fields": [
        {
            "name": "streetaddress",
            "type": "string"
        },
        {
            "name": "city",
            "type": "string"
        }
    ]
},
{
    "namespace": "com.company.model",
    "type": "record",
    "name": "person",
    "fields": [
        {
            "name": "firstname",
            "type": "string"
        },
        {
            "name": "lastname",
            "type": "string"
        },
        {
            "name": "address",
            "type": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": "com.company.model.AddressRecord"
            }
        }
    ]
}
]

When I was trying to validate through command line, I got an error

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/.local/bin/avro_validator", line 8, in <module>
    sys.exit(main())
  File "/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/avro_validator/cli.py", line 28, in main
    parsed_schema = schema.parse()
  File "/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/avro_validator/schema.py", line 28, in parse
    return RecordType.build(schema)
  File "/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/avro_validator/avro_types.py", line 647, in build
    cls._validate_json_repr(json_repr)
  File "/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/avro_validator/avro_types.py", line 63, in _validate_json_repr
    if cls.required_attributes.intersection(json_repr.keys()) != cls.required_attributes:
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'keys'

I couldn't find info in README in this repo about avro union. What should I do to make this work? Thanks

[jkleint]

It seems you can do this manually in code, but the results are not very helpful; it will just tell you your data "is not from one of the following types: ..."

from avro_validator import UnionType
validator = UnionType.build(schema)
validator.validate(data)