For the moment I've created an improvement issue about this: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-6170
On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 9:23 AM, Flavio Pompermaier <pomperma...@okkam.it> wrote: > 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 >> >> >
