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Sean Owen commented on SPARK-22225:
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I tend to agree that this is already available from binaryFiles as it gives you 
a stream on the input file. That's not a textual representation but of course 
you just apply a Reader to it. The given use case was XML files earlier, and 
those libraries are happy to operate on a stream. It's not crazy to have a 
convenience method that applies a BufferedReader to an InputStream but it hides 
virtually no complexity.

> wholeTextFilesIterators
> -----------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-22225
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-22225
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Spark Core
>    Affects Versions: 2.2.0
>            Reporter: sam
>
> It is a very common use case to want to preserve a path -> file mapping in an 
> RDD, or read an entire file in one go.  Especially for unstructured data and 
> ETL.
> Currently wholeTextFiles is the goto method for this, but it read the entire 
> file into memory, which is sometimes an issue (see SPARK-18965).  It also 
> precludes the option to lazily process files.
> It would be nice to have a method with the following signature:
> {code}
> def wholeTextFilesIterators(
>     path: String,
>     minPartitions: Int = defaultMinPartitions,
>     delimiter: String = "\n"): RDD[(String, Iterator[String])]
> {code}
> Where each `Iterator[String]` is a lazy file iterator where each string is 
> delimited by the `delimiter` field.



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