Thanks Paul for this suggestion, I think I'm going to give it a try. Once I've created my EasyFormatPlugin where should I put the produced jar? in which folder within jars directory?
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 2:57 AM, Paul Rogers <par0...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > It may be that by "fixed width text", Flavio means a file in which the > text columns are of fixed width: kind of like old-school punch cards. > Drill has no reader for this use case, but if you are a Java programmer, > you can create one. See Drill Pull Request #1114 [1] for one example of a > regex reader along with pointers to a second example I'm building for a > book. Should be easy to adopt this code to take a list of column widths in > place of the regex. Actually, you could use the regex with a pattern that > just picks out a fixed number of characters. > Thanks, > - Paul > > [1] https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/1114 > > > > > On Monday, February 19, 2018, 12:52:42 PM PST, Kunal Khatua < > kkha...@mapr.com> wrote: > > As long as you have delimiters, you should be able to import it as a > regular CSV file. Using views that define the fixed-width nature should > help operators downstream work more efficiently. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Flavio Pompermaier [mailto:pomperma...@okkam.it] > Sent: Monday, February 19, 2018 6:50 AM > To: user@drill.apache.org > Subject: Fixed-width files > > Hi to all, > I'm currently looking for the best solution to load a fixed-width text > file into Drill. > Is there any way right now to do that? Is there anyone that already have a > working connector? > Is it better to implement a brand new FormatPluginConfig or > StoragePluginConfig? > > Best, > Flavio > >
