I do not use rename, and the files are written to, and then moved to a
directory on HDFS in gz format.
On 22 October 2016 at 15:14, Steve Loughran <ste...@hortonworks.com> wrote:
>
> > On 21 Oct 2016, at 15:53, Nkechi Achara <nkach...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using Spark 1.5.0 to read gz files with textFileStream, but when
> new files are dropped in the specified directory. I know this is only the
> case with gz files as when i extract the file into the directory specified
> the files are read on the next window and processed.
> >
> > My code is here:
> >
> > val comments = ssc.fileStream[LongWritable, Text,
> TextInputFormat]("file:///tmp/", (f: Path) => true, newFilesOnly=false).
> > map(pair => pair._2.toString)
> > comments.foreachRDD(i => i.foreach(m=> println(m)))
> >
> > any idea why the gz files are not being recognized.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > K
>
> Are the files being written in the directory or renamed in? As you should
> be using rename() against a filesystem (not an object store) to make sure
> that the file isn't picked up
>
