Reading csv files in zeppelin using spark-csv

Question

I wanna read csv files in Zeppelin and would like to use databricks' spark-csv package: https://github.com/databricks/spark-csv

In the spark-shell, I can use spark-csv with

spark-shell --packages com.databricks:spark-csv_2.11:1.2.0

But how do I tell Zeppelin to use that package?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You need to add the Spark Packages repository to Zeppelin before you can use %dep on spark packages.

%dep
z.reset()
z.addRepo("Spark Packages Repo").url("http://dl.bintray.com/spark-packages/maven")
z.load("com.databricks:spark-csv_2.10:1.2.0")

Alternatively, if this is something you want available in all your notebooks, you can add the --packages option to the spark-submit command setting in the interpreters config in Zeppelin, and then restart the interpreter. This should start a context with the package already loaded as per the spark-shell method.

Answer 2

1. Go to the Interpreter tab, click Repository Information, add a repo and set the URL to http://dl.bintray.com/spark-packages/maven
2. Scroll down to the spark interpreter paragraph and click edit, scroll down a bit to the artifact field and add "com.databricks:spark-csv_2.10:1.2.0" or a newer version. Then restart the interpreter when asked.

3. In the notebook, use something like:

   import org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext
   
   val sqlContext = new SQLContext(sc)
   val df = sqlContext.read
       .format("com.databricks.spark.csv")
       .option("header", "true") // Use first line of all files as header
       .option("inferSchema", "true") // Automatically infer data types
       .load("my_data.txt")
   

Update:

In the Zeppelin user mailing list, it is now (Nov. 2016) stated by Moon Soo Lee (creator of Apache Zeppelin) that users prefer to keep %dep as it allows for:

• self-documenting library requirements in the notebook;
• per Note (and possible per User) library loading.

The tendency is now to keep %dep, so it should not be considered depreciated at this time.

Answer 3

BEGIN-EDIT

%dep is deprecated in Zeppelin 0.6.0. Please refer Paul-Armand Verhaegen's answer.

Please read further in this answer, if you are using zeppelin older than 0.6.0

END-EDIT

You can load the spark-csv package using %dep interpreter.

like,

%dep
z.reset()

// Add spark-csv package
z.load("com.databricks:spark-csv_2.10:1.2.0")

See Dependency Loading section in https://zeppelin.incubator.apache.org/docs/interpreter/spark.html

If you've already initialized Spark Context, quick solution is to restart zeppelin and execute zeppelin paragraph with above code first and then execute your spark code to read the CSV file