In case if we could return List<ABC> from DoFn<> then we could use the code as suggested in section 3.1.2 and mentioned by you below., but the return type of DoFn<> is always PCollection<> in where I could not have the list of ABC objects which further will be fed as input for parallel computation. Is there any possibility to convert List<ABC> to PCollection<ABC> in DoFn<> itself? OR can DoFn<> return List<ABC> objects?
Cheers, S. Sahayaraj From: Robert Bradshaw [mailto:rober...@google.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 6, 2018 9:40 PM To: user@beam.apache.org Subject: [EXTERNAL] - Re: Create PCollection<ABC> from List<ABC>in DoFn<> You can use the Create transform to do this, e.g. Pipeline p = ... List<ABC> inMemoryObjects = ... PCollection<ABC> pcollectionOfObject = p.apply(Create.of(inMemoryObjects)); result = pcollectionOfObject.apply(ParDo.of(SomeDoFn...)); See section 3.1.2 at https://beam.apache.org/documentation/programming-guide/#pcollections On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 8:34 AM S. Sahayaraj <ssahaya...@quark.com<mailto:ssahaya...@quark.com>> wrote: Hello, I have created a java class which extends DoFn<>, there are list of objects of type ABC (List<ABC>) populated in processElement(ProcessContext c) at runtime and would like to generate respective PCollection<ABC> from List<ABC> so that the subsequent transformation can do parallel execution on each ABC object in PCollection<ABC>. How do we create PCollection from in-memory object created in DoFn<>? OR How do we get pipeline object being in DoFn<>? OR is there any SDK guidelines to refer? Thanks, S. Sahayaraj
