Reading a simple Avro file from HDFS

Question

I am trying to do a simple read of an Avro file stored in HDFS. I found out how to read it when it is on the local file system....

FileReader reader = DataFileR         


        

Answer 1

The FsInput class (in the avro-mapred submodule, since it depends on Hadoop) can do this. It provides the seekable input stream that is needed for Avro data files.

Path path = new Path("/path/on/hdfs");
Configuration config = new Configuration(); // make this your Hadoop env config
SeekableInput input = new FsInput(path, config);
DatumReader reader = new GenericDatumReader();
FileReader fileReader = DataFileReader.openReader(input, reader);

for (GenericRecord datum : fileReader) {
    System.out.println("value = " + datum);
}

fileReader.close(); // also closes underlying FsInput