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Matthew Farrellee commented on SPARK-2360:
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what is the interface you're proposing?
i find the simplicity of R's read.csv to be a reasonable starting point. if
it's found to not satisfy all cases, it should be possible to extend in a
backward compatible way.
fyi, i'm constantly running into csv files with the format:
{code}
header0,header1,header2
Copyright notice
[blankline]*
data00,data01,data02
data10,data11,data12
{code}
> CSV import to SchemaRDDs
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> Key: SPARK-2360
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2360
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: SQL
> Reporter: Michael Armbrust
> Assignee: Hossein Falaki
> Priority: Minor
>
> I think the first step it to design the interface that we want to present to
> users. Mostly this is defining options when importing. Off the top of my
> head:
> - What is the separator?
> - Provide column names or infer them from the first row.
> - how to handle multiple files with possibly different schemas
> - do we have a method to let users specify the datatypes of the columns or
> are they just strings?
> - what types of quoting / escaping do we want to support?
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