[jira] [Commented] (BEAM-138) Extend TextIO to new protocols (and maybe rename to FileIO)

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

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Frances Perry commented on BEAM-138:
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TextIO is really about a specific file format -- it requires newline-deliminated records. It'd be great to increase the number of things it can read those from though. [~dhalperi@google.com] You probably know the status of generalizing the file system?

> Extend TextIO to new protocols (and maybe rename to FileIO)
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BEAM-138
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-138
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: sdk-java-extensions
>            Reporter: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>            Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
>
> The current TextIO supports:
> - local file when using directly path like /path/to...
> - Google Service file using path like gs:...
> On the other hand, we have a contribution (from Tom) to support HDFS.
> For an user perspective, it would be easier to use an unique IO supporting different protocol:
> - file:
> - gs:
> - hdfs:
> - mvn:
> - ...
> It would also be convenient to be able to combine protocols and eventually use a different coder (for instance xml:hdfs:).
> In that case, maybe I would make sense to rename TextIO as generic FileIO.
> Thoughts ?



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