Parsing a tsv file with key value pairs

[Ravikant Dindokar]

Hi Spark user,

I am new to spark so forgive me for asking a basic question. I'm trying to
import my tsv file into spark. This file has key and value separated by a
\t per line. I want to import this file as dictionary of key value pairs in
Spark.

I came across this code to do the same for csv file:

import csv
import StringIO
...
def loadRecord(line):
"""Parse a CSV line"""
  input = StringIO.StringIO(line)
  reader = csv.DictReader(input, fieldnames=["name",   "favouriteAnimal"])
  return reader.next()
input = sc.textFile(inputFile).map(loadRecord)

Can you point out the changes required to parse a tsv file?

After following operation :

split_lines = lines.map(_.split("\t"))

what should I do to read the key values in dictionary?


Thanks

Ravikant