Spark: Reading files using different delimiter than new line

Question

I\'m using Apache Spark 1.0.1. I have many files delimited with UTF8 \\u0001 and not with the usual new line \\n. How can I read such files in Spar

Answer 1

In Spark shell, I extracted data according to Setting textinputformat.record.delimiter in spark:

$ spark-shell
...
scala> import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable
import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable

scala> import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text

scala> import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration

scala> import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat

scala> val conf = new Configuration
conf: org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration = Configuration: core-default.xml, core-site.xml, mapred-default.xml, mapred-site.xml, yarn-default.xml, yarn-site.xml

scala> conf.set("textinputformat.record.delimiter", "\u0001")

scala> val data = sc.newAPIHadoopFile("mydata.txt", classOf[TextInputFormat], classOf[LongWritable], classOf[Text], conf).map(_._2.toString)
data: org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD[(org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable, org.apache.hadoop.io.Text)] = NewHadoopRDD[0] at newAPIHadoopFile at :19

sc.newAPIHadoopFile("mydata.txt", ...) is a RDD[(LongWritable, Text)], where the first part of the elements is the starting character index, and the second part is the actual text delimited by "\u0001".