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Eugene Kirpichov commented on BEAM-2802:
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What does the custom delimiter look like in practice? E.g. if it's a particular
line, then one could imagine that this line could be delimited from others by
\r or \n or \r\n - in that case, it'd be better to first split into lines, and
then group consecutive lines into a record (as part of the source - not by a
transform in the pipeline, because the output of TextIO.read is unordered so
you can't group consecutive lines anymore).
Also, does the user want the consecutive lines given as a List<String> or as a
single String that internally may contain \r, \n or \r\n's ?
> TextIO should allow specifying a custom delimiter
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> Key: BEAM-2802
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-2802
> Project: Beam
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: sdk-java-extensions
> Reporter: Etienne Chauchot
> Assignee: Etienne Chauchot
> Priority: Minor
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> Currently TextIO use {{\r}} {{\n}} or {{\r\n}} or a mix of the two to split a
> text file into PCollection elements. It might happen that a record is spread
> across more than one line. In that case we should be able to specify a custom
> record delimiter to be used in place of the default ones.
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