ENH: In-built functions/API or utility to handle avro files

[KayvanShah1]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

It would be great if pandas has inbuilt capabilities to handle - read, write, update, manipulate Avro files

Describe the solution you'd like

read_avro() and to_avro() functions

Describe alternatives you've considered

There are two installable libraries for working with Avro files:
avro & fastavro

Additional context

• https://towardsdatascience.com/csv-files-for-storage-absolutely-not-use-apache-avro-instead-7b7296149326

[jreback]

this was asked in #11752

if a fully baked and tested PR was proposed would not object

[jorisvandenbossche]

Some relevant discussion about this on the fastavro side: fastavro/fastavro#112

To be honest, I think this should be rather implemented as a third-party package first, and if that exists, we can still consider whether we want to optionally depend on that and wrap it in a to_avro/read_avro

[mroeschke]

Thanks for the request. We have this logged in our master IO tracker #30407, and agreed utilizing a 3rd party parser would be idea. Closing as in our master tracker.