File.md

File

Source plugin : File [Flink]

Description

Read data from the file system

Options

name	type	required	default value
format.type	string	yes	-
path	string	yes	-
schema	string	yes	-
common-options	string	no	-
parallelism	int	no	-

format.type [string]

The format for reading files from the file system, currently supports csv , json , parquet , orc and text .

path [string]

The file path is required. The hdfs file starts with hdfs:// , and the local file starts with file:// .

schema [string]

• csv

  • The schema of csv is a string of jsonArray , such as "[{\"type\":\"long\"},{\"type\":\"string\"}]" , this can only specify the type of the field , The field name cannot be specified, and the common configuration parameter field_name is generally required.

• json

  • The schema parameter of json is to provide a json string of the original data, and the schema can be automatically generated, but the original data with the most complete content needs to be provided, otherwise the fields will be lost.

• parquet

  • The schema of parquet is an Avro schema string , such as {\"type\":\"record\",\"name\":\"test\",\"fields\":[{\"name\" :\"a\",\"type\":\"int\"},{\"name\":\"b\",\"type\":\"string\"}]} .

• orc

  • The schema of orc is the string of orc schema , such as "struct<name:string,addresses:array<struct<street:string,zip:smallint>>>" .

• text

  • The schema of text can be filled with string .

common options [string]

Source plugin common parameters, please refer to Source Plugin for details

parallelism [Int]

The parallelism of an individual operator, for FileSource

Examples

  FileSource{
    path = "hdfs://localhost:9000/input/"
    format.type = "json"
    schema = "{\"data\":[{\"a\":1,\"b\":2},{\"a\":3,\"b\":4}],\"db\":\"string\",\"q\":{\"s\":\"string\"}}"
    result_table_name = "test"
  }