Extract first line of CSV file in Pig

Question

I have several CSV files and the header is always the first line in the file. What\'s the best way to get that line out of the CSV file as a string in Pig? Preprocessing with se

Answer 1

Disclaimer: I'm not great with Java.

You are going to need a UDF. I'm not sure exactly what you are asking for, but this UDF will take a series of CSV files and turn them into maps, where the keys are the values at the top of the file. This should hopefully be enough of a skeleton so that you can change it into what you want.

The couple of tests I've done remotely and locally indicate that this will work.

package myudfs;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.apache.pig.LoadFunc;

import java.util.Map;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import org.apache.pig.data.Tuple;
import org.apache.pig.data.TupleFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.Job;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.InputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.RecordReader;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.FileInputFormat;
import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.input.TextInputFormat;

import org.apache.pig.PigException;
import org.apache.pig.backend.executionengine.ExecException;
import org.apache.pig.backend.hadoop.executionengine.mapReduceLayer.PigSplit;

public class ExampleCSVLoader extends LoadFunc {
    protected RecordReader in = null;
    private String fieldDel = "" + '\t';
    private Map<String, String> outputMap = null;
    private TupleFactory mTupleFactory = TupleFactory.getInstance();

    // This stores the fields that are defined in the first line of the file
    private ArrayList<Object> topfields = null;

    public ExampleCSVLoader() {}

    public ExampleCSVLoader(String delimiter) {
        this();
        this.fieldDel = delimiter;
    }

    @Override
    public Tuple getNext() throws IOException {
        try {
            boolean notDone = in.nextKeyValue();
            if (!notDone) {
                outputMap = null;
                topfields = null;
                return null;
            }

            String value = in.getCurrentValue().toString();
            String[] values = value.split(fieldDel);
            Tuple t =  mTupleFactory.newTuple(1);

            ArrayList<Object> tf = new ArrayList<Object>();

            int pos = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
                if (topfields == null) {
                    tf.add(values[i]);
                } else {
                    readField(values[i], pos);
                    pos = pos + 1;
                }
            }
            if (topfields == null) {
                topfields = tf;
                t = mTupleFactory.newTuple();
            } else {
                t.set(0, outputMap);
            }

            outputMap = null;
            return t;
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            int errCode = 6018;
            String errMsg = "Error while reading input";
            throw new ExecException(errMsg, errCode,
                    PigException.REMOTE_ENVIRONMENT, e);
        }

    }

    // Applies foo to the appropriate value in topfields
    private void readField(String foo, int pos) {
        if (outputMap == null) {
            outputMap = new HashMap<String, String>();
        }
        outputMap.put((String) topfields.get(pos), foo);
    }

    @Override
    public InputFormat getInputFormat() {
        return new TextInputFormat();
    }

    @Override
    public void prepareToRead(RecordReader reader, PigSplit split) {
        in = reader;
    }

    @Override
    public void setLocation(String location, Job job)
            throws IOException {
        FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job, location);
    }
}

Sample output loading a directory with:

csv1.in             csv2.in
-------            ---------
A|B|C               D|E|F
Hello|This|is       PLEASE|WORK|FOO
FOO|BAR|BING        OR|EVERYTHING|WILL
BANG|BOSH           BE|FOR|NAUGHT

Produces this output:

A: {M: map[]}
()
([D#PLEASE,E#WORK,F#FOO])
([D#OR,E#EVERYTHING,F#WILL])
([D#BE,E#FOR,F#NAUGHT])
()
([A#Hello,B#This,C#is])
([A#FOO,B#BAR,C#BING])
([A#BANG,B#BOSH])

The ()s are the top lines of the file. getNext() requires that we return something, otherwise the file will stop being processed. Therefore they return a null schema.

Answer 2

If your CSV comply with CSV conventions of Excel 2007 you can use already available loader from Piggybank http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pig/trunk/contrib/piggybank/java/src/main/java/org/apache/pig/piggybank/storage/CSVExcelStorage.java?view=markup

It has an option to skip the CSV header SKIP_INPUT_HEADER