So is this project of yours also built on top of Beam, or is it unrelated?

On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 1:12 PM Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Issues forking are:
>
> 1. I have to drop beam FileIO (in all its flavors) which means not taking
> any benefit from beam in that area which is 50% of beam gain (the other
> being the portability)
> 2. I have to maintain a bridge for all filesystem impl - being said it
> still misses some info ATM
> 3. It is still in beam sdk so "here" which is misleading for dev (can be
> fixed if beam becomes modular)
>
> As a side note - and to link with another thread topic: with vfs as an
> abstraction i dont have that issue at all.
>
> Le 6 avr. 2018 20:35, "Reuven Lax" <re...@google.com> a écrit :
>
>> Personally, this is a case where I think forking might be a better
>> option, even though I'm not generally a fan of duplicating code.
>>
>> In past projects, depending on internal modules of other projects never
>> seems lead to good outcomes. FileSystem exists for Beam today, and Beam
>> might make changes to it that cause problems for your other project. I
>> would recommend starting by forking if it serves your needs.
>>
>> Reuven
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 8:17 AM Romain Manni-Bucau <rmannibu...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I have a use case where I'd like to be able to expose to a user some
>>> file system navigation and enable him to visualize the file system (as in
>>> beam sense)
>>>
>>> Technically it is a matter of being able to use glob pattern to browse
>>> the file system using match(specs).
>>>
>>> What is important in that use case is to align the visualization and the
>>> potential runtime to have the same impl/view and not have to split it in 2
>>> code branches which can lead to inconsistency.
>>>
>>> Therefore i'd like to be able to reuse beam FileSystem but I have a few
>>> blockers:
>>>
>>> 1. it is nested in sdk-java-core which brings 2 drawbacks
>>> a. it brings the whole beam sdk which is not desired in that part of the
>>> app (should not be visible in the classpath)
>>> b. the dependency stack is just unpractiable (guava, jackson,
>>> byte-buddy, avro, joda, at least, are not desired at all here) and a shade
>>> makes it way too fat to be a valid dependency for that usage
>>> 2. I don't know how to configure the FS from one of its instance (I'd
>>> like to be able to get its options class like
>>> FileSystem#getConfigurationType returning a PipelineOptions)
>>>
>>> Do you think it is possible to extract the filesystem API in a
>>> dependency free beam subproject (or at least submodule) and add the
>>> configuration hint in the API?
>>>
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