Support for external schema references

[nicolaslt]

Hello!

I've just learned of this new feature of Schema Registry (see some usage here).

I'm not entirely certain around when that feature has been/will be released but I imagine we would need a way to register the subjects in avsc so that it knows how to do its magic.

Is it on the radar for future improvements? (or already supported and I've just missed it)

[mtth]

Hi @nicolaslt. Thanks for bringing this up. From reading through the link, avsc can already provide limited support via type hooks. Type hooks have limitations which won't fit all use-cases though, in particular the fact that they are synchronous. Let's keep this open to track interest in related improvements.