Read the data from HDFS using Scala

Question

I am new to Scala. How can I read a file from HDFS using Scala (not using Spark)? When I googled it I only found writing option to HDFS.

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
import java.io.PrintWriter;

/**
* @author ${user.name}
*/
object App {

//def foo(x : Array[String]) = x.foldLeft("")((a,b) => a + b)

def main(args : Array[String]) {
println( "Trying to write to HDFS..." )
val conf = new Configuration()
//conf.set("fs.defaultFS", "hdfs://quickstart.cloudera:8020")
conf.set("fs.defaultFS", "hdfs://192.168.30.147:8020")
val fs= FileSystem.get(conf)
val output = fs.create(new Path("/tmp/mySample.txt"))
val writer = new PrintWriter(output)
try {
    writer.write("this is a test") 
    writer.write("\n")
}
finally {
    writer.close()
    println("Closed!")
}
println("Done!")
}

}

Please help me.How can read the file or load file from HDFS using scala.

Answer 1

One of the ways (kinda in functional style) could be like this:

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.{FileSystem, Path}
import java.net.URI
import scala.collection.immutable.Stream

val hdfs = FileSystem.get(new URI("hdfs://yourUrl:port/"), new Configuration()) 
val path = new Path("/path/to/file/")
val stream = hdfs.open(path)
def readLines = Stream.cons(stream.readLine, Stream.continually( stream.readLine))

//This example checks line for null and prints every existing line consequentally
readLines.takeWhile(_ != null).foreach(line => println(line))

Also you could take a look this article or here and here, these questions look related to yours and contain working (but more Java-like) code examples if you're interested.