How to use Hadoop InputFormats In Apache Spark?

Question

I have a class ImageInputFormat in Hadoop which reads images from HDFS. How to use my InputFormat in Spark?

Here is my ImageInputFormat:

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Answer 1

The SparkContext has a method called hadoopFile. It accepts classes implementing the interface org.apache.hadoop.mapred.InputFormat

Its description says "Get an RDD for a Hadoop file with an arbitrary InputFormat".

Also have a look at the Spark Documentation.