Write to multiple outputs by key Spark - one Spark job

Question

How can you write to multiple outputs dependent on the key using Spark in a single Job.

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Answer 1

I had a similar use case where I split the input file on Hadoop HDFS into multiple files based on a key (1 file per key). Here is my scala code for spark

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem;
import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;

val hadoopconf = new Configuration();
val fs = FileSystem.get(hadoopconf);

@serializable object processGroup {
    def apply(groupName:String, records:Iterable[String]): Unit = {
        val outFileStream = fs.create(new Path("/output_dir/"+groupName))
        for( line <- records ) {
                outFileStream.writeUTF(line+"\n")
            }
        outFileStream.close()
    }
}
val infile = sc.textFile("input_file")
val dateGrouped = infile.groupBy( _.split(",")(0))
dateGrouped.foreach( (x) => processGroup(x._1, x._2))

I have grouped the records based on key. The values for each key is written to separate file.