[jira] [Updated] (BEAM-60) FileBasedSource/IOChannelFactory: Custom glob expansion

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-60?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Daniel Halperin updated BEAM-60:
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    Assignee: Pei He

> FileBasedSource/IOChannelFactory: Custom glob expansion
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>
>                 Key: BEAM-60
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-60
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: sdk-java-core
>            Reporter: Daniel Halperin
>            Assignee: Pei He
>
> Many cloud and distributed filesystems are eventually consistent, for instance Amazon s3 and Google Cloud Storage.
> To work around this, many systems that produce files such as Beam's FileBasedSinks, or Google BigQuery will provide methods to determine the number and set of files produced. E.g.,
> * Beam FileBasedSink uses -00000-of-NNNNN
> * BigQuery export jobs uses -000000 -000001 -000002 ... until an empty file is produced
> * Another system may produce a .filelist suffix that contains a list of all files.
> Users should be able to supply a glob to FileBasedSource but additionally supply a "glob expander" that can provide a custom implementation for file expansion. That way, e.g., Beam pipelines can be run back-to-back-to-back where each consumes the output of the previous, on an inconsistent filesystem, without data loss.



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