[jira] [Closed] (BEAM-73) IO design pattern: Decouple Parsers and Coders

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

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-73?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Eugene Kirpichov closed BEAM-73.
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    Resolution: Duplicate

The only remaining instance of this is in KafkaIO, handled by BEAM-1573.

> IO design pattern: Decouple Parsers and Coders
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: BEAM-73
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-73
>             Project: Beam
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: sdk-java-core
>            Reporter: Daniel Halperin
>            Priority: Minor
>              Labels: backward-incompatible
>             Fix For: First stable release
>
>
> Many Sources can be thought of as providing a byte[] payload -- e.g. TextIO bytes between newlines, or PubSubIO messages. Therefore, we originally suggested a Coder as the thing to use to decode these byte[] into T (what I'll call Parsing).
> Consider the case of a text file of integers.
> 123\n
> 456\n
> ...
> We want a PCollection<Integer> out, so we can use TextualIntegerCoder with TextIO.Read. However, that Coder will get propagated as the default coder for that PCollection (and may be used in downstream DoFns). This seem bad as, once the data is parsed, we probably want to use VarIntCoder or another Coder that is more CPU- and Space-efficient.
> Another design pattern is
>     TextIO.Read() -> MapElements<String, Integer> (lambda s : Integer.parseInt(s))
> This has better behavior, but now we go from byte[] to String to Integer rather than directly from byte[] to Integer.
> The solution seems to be to explicitly add Parser and Coder abstractions.



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