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Lars Kolb commented on IO-288:
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Basically, it would be required to support:
{code}
FSDataInputStream is= FileSystem.get(conf);
is.seek(offset);
//constructor takes (positioned) Input stream
public ReversedLinesFileReader(InputStream is)
{
//do not seek to end of file, simply start reading from is
}
public int readLine(Text text)
{
//return bytes read and store line in text
//alternatively one could return a Pair<String,Integer> to not depend on
org.apache.hadoop.io.Text
}
{code}
> Supply a ReversedLinesFileReader
> ---------------------------------
>
> Key: IO-288
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-288
> Project: Commons IO
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Utilities
> Reporter: Georg Henzler
> Fix For: 2.2
>
> Attachments: ReversedLinesFileReader0.3.zip
>
>
> I needed to analyse a log file today and I was looking for a
> ReversedLinesFileReader: A class that behaves exactly like BufferedReader
> except that it goes from bottom to top when readLine() is called. I didn't
> find it in IOUtils and the internet didn't help a lot either, e.g.
> http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/0180__File/ReversingaFile.htm is a fairly
> inefficient - the log files I'm analysing are huge and it is not a good idea
> to load the whole content in the memory.
> So I ended up writing an implementation myself using little memory and the
> class RandomAccessFile - see attached file. It's used as follows:
> int blockSize = 4096; // only that much memory is needed, no matter how big
> the file is
> ReversedLinesFileReader reversedLinesFileReader = new ReversedLinesFileReader
> (myFile, blockSize, "UTF-8"); // encoding is supported
> String line = null;
> while((line=reversedLinesFileReader.readLine())!=null) {
> ... // use the line
> if(enoughLinesSeen) {
> break;
> }
> }
> reversedLinesFileReader.close();
> I believe this could be useful for other people as well!
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