Deserialize Kafka-Avro-Message received from AWS Lambda Trigger

Question

We have set up a Kafka Lambda Trigger in AWS to consume from a Kafka read API. The connection was successful and I can receive Json Objects in my C# Lambda function. However, the Json Objects contain a value property with the serialised data and I'm struggeling to deserialise it using our AVRO schema. I'm using the nugget packages Confluent.Kafka and Confluent.SchemaRegistry.Serdes. This is my attempt:

```
var value = myRecord.GetProperty("value").GetBytesFromBase64();

var schemaRegistryConfig = new SchemaRegistryConfig
{
    Url = "mySchemaRegistry"

};

using var schemaRegistry = new CachedSchemaRegistryClient(schemaRegistryConfig);

var deserializer = new AvroDeserializer(schemaRegistry);
try
{
    var result = deserializer.DeserializeAsync(value, false, SerializationContext.Empty).Result;
    return result;
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
    return null;
}
```

Currently, DeserializeAsync throws the following Exception:

```
AvroDeserializer only accepts type parameters of int, bool, double, string, float, long, byte[], instances of ISpecificRecord and subclasses of SpecificFixed.
```
Does someone has experience with a similar setup and can guide me how this can work?

I've tried to use other types than byte[], but this will not work with the AvroDeserializer class.

The Kafka Lambda Trigger might do some magic that changes the byte array that I'm retrieving.

Sanath_M · Answer

I'm sorry, I might not be right, but you can try and use the following:
```
var jsonData = JsonReaderWriterFactory.CreateJsonReader(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(jsonInput), new System.Xml.XmlDictionaryReaderQuotas());
jsonData.Read(); // Move to the root element
jsonData.ReadStartElement("root"); // Move to the "value" property
string base64EncodedAvroData = jsonData.ReadContentAsString();
byte[] avroBytes = Convert.FromBase64String(base64EncodedAvroData);
YourAvroSchema deserializedData = avroDeserializer.Deserialize(avroBytes, isNull: false, context);
```

Deserialize Kafka-Avro-Message received from AWS Lambda Trigger

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