Hi Robert, just ignore my previous question. My files started with underscore and I just found out that FileInputFormat does filter for underscores in acceptFile().
Cheers, Ronny Am 01.07.2015 um 11:35 schrieb Robert Metzger <rmetz...@apache.org>: > Hi Ronny, > > check out this answer on SO: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30599616/create-objects-from-input-files-in-apache-flink > It is a similar use case ... I guess you can get the metadata from the input > split as well. > > On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Ronny Bräunlich <r.braeunl...@gmail.com> > wrote: > Hello, > > I want to read a file containing textfiles with Flink. > As I already found out I can simply point the environment to the directory > and it will read all the files. > What I couldn’t find out is if it’s possible to keep the file metadata > somehow. > Concrete, I need the timestamp, the filename and the file content. Is there a > way to do this with the ExecutionEnvironment? > > Cheers, > Ronny >