Deserialize avro in apache flink using confluent

Question

i'm trying to deserialize an Avro message from kafka on apache flink

i'm currently doing it by implementing the DeserializationSchema interface but it is depecrated is there a better form to achieve this?

Thanks.

These are my classes

public final class FlinkKafkaExample {

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

    final StreamExecutionEnvironment env = StreamExecutionEnvironment.getExecutionEnvironment();
    // setup Kafka sink
    ConfluentAvroDeserializationSchema deserSchema = new
            ConfluentAvroDeserializationSchema("http://localhost:8081", 1000);

    Properties kafkaProps = new Properties();
    kafkaProps.setProperty("bootstrap.servers", "0.0.0.0:9092");
    kafkaProps.setProperty("zookeeper.connect", "0.0.0.0:2181");
    kafkaProps.setProperty("group.id", "org.apache.flink");
    FlinkKafkaConsumer08<String> flinkKafkaConsumer =
            new FlinkKafkaConsumer08<String>("conekta.public.codes", deserSchema, kafkaProps);

    DataStream<String> kafkaStream = env.addSource(flinkKafkaConsumer);


    kafkaStream.print();
    env.execute("Flink Kafka Java Example");
}

}

public class ConfluentAvroDeserializationSchema implements DeserializationSchema<String> {

private final String schemaRegistryUrl;
private final int identityMapCapacity;
private KafkaAvroDecoder kafkaAvroDecoder;

public ConfluentAvroDeserializationSchema(String schemaRegistryUrl, int identityMapCapacity) {
    this.schemaRegistryUrl = schemaRegistryUrl;
    this.identityMapCapacity = identityMapCapacity;
}


public String deserialize(byte[] message) {
    if (kafkaAvroDecoder == null) {
        SchemaRegistryClient schemaRegistry = new CachedSchemaRegistryClient(this.schemaRegistryUrl, this.identityMapCapacity);
        this.kafkaAvroDecoder = new KafkaAvroDecoder(schemaRegistry);
    }
    return this.kafkaAvroDecoder.fromBytes(message).toString();
}


public boolean isEndOfStream(String nextElement) {
    return false;
}
public TypeInformation<String> getProducedType() {
    return BasicTypeInfo.STRING_TYPE_INFO;
}

}