Spark : Read file only if the path exists

Question

I am trying to read the files present at Sequence of Paths in scala. Below is the sample (pseudo) code:

val paths = Seq[String] //Seq of paths
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Answer 1

How about filtering the paths firstly`:

paths.filter(f => new java.io.File(f).exists)

For instance:

Seq("/tmp", "xx").filter(f => new java.io.File(f).exists)
// res18: List[String] = List(/tmp)

Answer 2

You can filter out the irrelevant files as in @Psidom's answer. In spark, the best way to do so is to use the internal spark hadoop configuration. Given that spark session variable is called "spark" you can do:

import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path

val hadoopfs: FileSystem = FileSystem.get(spark.sparkContext.hadoopConfiguration)

def testDirExist(path: String): Boolean = {
  val p = new Path(path)
  hadoopfs.exists(p) && hadoopfs.getFileStatus(p).isDirectory
}
val filteredPaths = paths.filter(p => testDirExists(p))
val dataframe = spark.read.parquet(filteredPaths: _*)