You can use sc.hadoopFile (or any of the variants) to do what you want.
They even let you reuse your existing HadoopInputFormats. You should be
able to mimic your old use with MR just fine. sc.textFile is just a
convenience method which sits on top.
imran
On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 12:03 PM, tog
Hi
I havé an application that currently run using MR. It currently starts
extracting information from a proprietary binary file that is copied to
HDFS. The application starts by creating business objects from information
extracted from the binary files. Later those objects are used for further
