# Deserializing an avro file in file input plugin
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deserializing-an-avro-file-in-file-input-plugin/100195
**Category:** Logstash
**Created:** [September 12, 2017, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deserializing-an-avro-file-in-file-input-plugin/100195 "2017-09-12T10:30:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Pratheek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pratheek)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2017, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deserializing-an-avro-file-in-file-input-plugin/100195/1 "2017-09-12T10:30:40Z")
Hi,
Is it possible to deserialize an avro file using file input plugin ?
In the case of kafka input plugin there are settings such as key deserializer class and value deserializer class,is there anything as such for file input plugin?
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2017, 10:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deserializing-an-avro-file-in-file-input-plugin/100195/2 "2017-09-12T10:34:34Z")
Does this relate to [Deserializing avro file in logstash](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deserializing-avro-file-in-logstash/99793)?
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### Author:  [@Pratheek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Pratheek)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deserializing-an-avro-file-in-file-input-plugin/100195/3 "2017-09-12T11:26:56Z")
Yeah,but there I had questioned about an specific approach.Here its more generic .
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/deserializing-an-avro-file-in-file-input-plugin/100195/4 "2017-10-10T11:26:57Z")
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