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ASF GitHub Bot commented on FLINK-3655:
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Github user zentol commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5415
What would speak against creating a new FileInputFormat that supports
multiple paths instead? Common code could be moved into a shared super class (I
_think_ that would be allowed).
> Allow comma-separated or multiple directories to be specified for
> FileInputFormat
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>
> Key: FLINK-3655
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3655
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Affects Versions: 1.0.0
> Reporter: Gna Phetsarath
> Assignee: Fabian Hueske
> Priority: Major
> Labels: starter
> Fix For: 1.5.0
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> Allow comma-separated or multiple directories to be specified for
> FileInputFormat so that a DataSource will process the directories
> sequentially.
>
> env.readFile("/data/2016/01/01/*/*,/data/2016/01/02/*/*,/data/2016/01/03/*/*")
> in Scala
> env.readFile(paths: Seq[String])
> or
> env.readFile(path: String, otherPaths: String*)
> Wildcard support would be a bonus.
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