[jira] [Commented] (FLINK-2988) Cannot load DataSet[Row] from CSV file

["GaoLun (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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GaoLun commented on FLINK-2988:
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Hi, [~jkovacs] . Is this problem solved?
IMO, *readCsvFile* can only support the *tuple* and *POJO* class which wouldn't support nullable fields. While reading the csv file, *env* created the *tupleSerializer*. *RowSerializer* can create certain *serializer* according to the field type. *Row* can also support null value which *tuple* can't.

> Cannot load DataSet[Row] from CSV file
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: FLINK-2988
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-2988
>             Project: Flink
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: DataSet API, Table API
>    Affects Versions: 0.10.0
>            Reporter: Johann Kovacs
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Tuple classes (Java/Scala both) only have arity up to 25, meaning I cannot load a CSV file with more than 25 columns directly as a DataSet\[TupleX\[...\]\].
> An alternative to using Tuples is using the Table API's Row class, which allows for arbitrary-length, arbitrary-type, runtime-supplied schemata (using RowTypeInfo) and index-based access.
> However, trying to load a CSV file as a DataSet\[Row\] yields an exception:
> {code}
> val env = ExecutionEnvironment.createLocalEnvironment()
> val filePath = "../someCsv.csv"
> val typeInfo = new RowTypeInfo(Seq(BasicTypeInfo.STRING_TYPE_INFO, BasicTypeInfo.INT_TYPE_INFO), Seq("word", "number"))
> val source = env.readCsvFile(filePath)(ClassTag(classOf[Row]), typeInfo)
> println(source.collect())
> {code}
> with someCsv.csv containing:
> {code}
> one,1
> two,2
> {code}
> yields
> {code}
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.flink.api.table.typeinfo.RowSerializer cannot be cast to org.apache.flink.api.java.typeutils.runtime.TupleSerializerBase
> 	at org.apache.flink.api.scala.operators.ScalaCsvInputFormat.<init>(ScalaCsvInputFormat.java:46)
> 	at org.apache.flink.api.scala.ExecutionEnvironment.readCsvFile(ExecutionEnvironment.scala:282)
> {code}
> As a user I would like to be able to load a CSV file into a DataSet\[Row\], preferably having a convenience method to specify the schema (RowTypeInfo), without having to use the "explicit implicit parameters" syntax and specifying the ClassTag.



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