See this https://sites.google.com/site/hadoopandhive/home/how-to-read-all-files-in-a-directory-in-hdfs-using-hadoop-filesystem-api
and http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/stable/api/org/apache/hadoop/fs/FileSystem.html#isDirectory(org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path) Basically you can write your own function, possible with recursion, to iterate over a directory using the idea and combinations from above two links. Regards, Shahab On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Huy Pham <pha...@yahoo-inc.com> wrote: > Hi All, > Do any of you have or can refer me to some sample Java code that get > the tree structure of a HDFS directory, similar to the file system? > For example: I have a HDFS dir, called /data, inside data, there is > /data/valid and /data/invalid, and so on, so I would need to be able to get > the whole tree structure of that and know which is is a dir, which one is a > file. Both program and HDFS are LOCAL. > In other words, what I look for is something similar to File class in > Java, which has isDirectory() and list() to list all the children (files > and dirs) of a dir. Found something in stackoverflow but it does not work. > Thanks > Huy > > >