[jira] [Commented] (BEAM-2586) Accommodate custom delimiters in TextIO

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on BEAM-2586:
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Github user cphbrt closed the pull request at:

    https://github.com/apache/beam/pull/3543


> Accommodate custom delimiters in TextIO
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BEAM-2586
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-2586
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: sdk-java-core
>            Reporter: Christopher Hebert
>            Assignee: Davor Bonaci
>            Priority: Minor
>
> We frequently process text files delimited by something other than newlines, including delimited only by end of file.
> First option:
> When we want to delimit by commas (or something else), we could use TextIO to read in line by line and apply a transform to split each line on commas. When we want to delimit by whole file, we could combine the elements of the PCollection output from TextIO that come from the same file into one element.
> Second option:
> Alternatively to complicating (and slowing) our pipelines with the methods above, we could write custom FileBasedSources for each use case.
> Third option:
> Preferably, we'd like to generalize TextIO to accept delimiters other than the default: \n, \r, \r\n.
> I'll attach a pull request for how we envision this generalization of TextIO to look.
> If this is not the direction Beam would like to go with TextIO, then we'll stick to maintaining our own TextIO or our own FileBasedSources to achieve this functionality.



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