from quixstreams.sources.community.file.local import LocalFileSource
Local File Source
Info
This is a Community connector. Test it before using in production.
To learn more about differences between Core and Community connectors, see the Community and Core Connectors page.
This source reads records from files at a local directory and produces
them as messages to a kafka topic using any desired StreamingDataFrame
-based transformations.
The resulting messages can be produced in "replay" mode, where the time between record producing is matched as close as possible to the original. (per topic partition only).
How To Install
Simply install Quix Streams, no options required:
How It Works
LocalFileSource
steps through each folder within the provided path and dumps each record
contained in each file as a message to a Kafka topic. Folders are navigated in
lexicographical order.
Records are read in a streaming fashion and committed after every file, offering at-least-once guarantees.
It can handle one given file type (ex. JSONlines or Parquet) at a time, and also supports file decompression.
You can learn more details about the expected kafka message format below.
How To Use
Import and instantiate a LocalFileSource
instance and hand it to an Application using
app.add_source(<LocalFileSource>)
or instead to a StreamingDataFrame with
app.dataframe(source=<LocalFileSource>)
if further data manipulation is required.
For more details around various settings, see configuration.
from quixstreams import Application
from quixstreams.sources.community.file.local import LocalFileSource
def key_setter(record: dict) -> str:
return record["host_id"]
def value_setter(record: dict) -> dict:
return {k: record[k] for k in ["field_x", "field_y"]}
def timestamp_setter(record: dict) -> int:
return record['timestamp']
source = LocalFileSource(
filepath='folder_a/folder_b',
key_setter=key_setter,
value_setter=value_setter,
timestamp_setter=timestamp_setter,
file_format="json",
compression="gzip",
has_partition_folders=False,
replay_speed=0.5,
)
app = Application(
broker_address="localhost:9092",
consumer_group='file-source',
auto_offset_reset='latest',
)
app.add_source(source)
if __name__ == "__main__":
app.run()
Configuration
Here are some important configurations to be aware of (see File Source API for all parameters).
Required:
filepath
: folder to recursively iterate from (a file will be used directly).
Note: If using alongsideFileSink
, provide the path to the topic name folder (ex:"path/to/topic_a/"
).
Optional:
format
: what format the message files are in (ex:"json"
,"parquet"
).
Advanced: can optionally provide aFormat
instance (compression
will then be ignored).
Default:"json"
compression
: what compression is used on the given files, if any (ex:"gzip"
)
Default:None
replay_speed
: Produce the messages with this speed multiplier, which roughly reflects the time "delay" between the original message producing.
Use anyfloat
>= 0.0
, where0.0
is no delay, and1.0
is the original speed.
Note: Time delay will only be accurate per partition, NOT overall.
Default: 1.0
Supported File Hierarchies
All *FileSource
types support both single file referencing and recursive folder traversal.
In addition, it also supports a topic-partition file structure as produced by a Quix
Streams *FileSink
instance.
Using with a Topic-Partition hierarchy (from *FileSink
)
A Topic-Partition structure allows reproducing messages to the exact partition they originated from.
When using a Quix Streams *FileSink
, it will produce files using this structure:
my_sinked_topics/
├── topic_a/ # topic name (use this path to File Source!)
│ ├── 0/ # topic partition number
│ │ ├── 0000.ext # formatted offset files (ex: JSON)
│ │ └── 0011.ext
│ └── 1/
│ ├── 0003.ext
│ └── 0016.ext
└── topic_b/
└── etc...
To have *FileSource
reflect this partition mapping for messages (instead of just producing
messages to whatever partition is applicable), it must know how many partition folders
there are so it can create a topic with that many partitions.
To enable this:
1. subclass your *FileSource
instance and define the file_partition_counter
method.
- this will be run before processing any files.
2. Enable the use of file_partition_counter
by setting the flag has_partition_folders=True
.
3. Extract the original Kafka key with key_setter
(by default, it uses the same field name that *FinkSink
writes to).
- see message data schema for more info around expected defaults.
Example
As a simple example, using the topic-partition file structure:
you could define file_partition_counter
on LocalFileSource
like this:
from quixstreams.sources.community.file.local import LocalFileSource
class MyLocalFileSource(LocalFileSource):
def file_partition_counter(self) -> int:
return len([f for f in self._filepath.iterdir()]) # `len(['0', '1'])`
Also, for our key_setter
:
Then when initing with your new class:
source = MyLocalFileSource(
..., # required args,
has_partition_folders=True,
key_setter=my_key_setter,
)
This will produce these messages across the 2 partitions in their original partitioning and ordering.
Message Data Format/Schema
The expected file schema largely depends on the chosen file format.
For easiest use (especially alongside FileSink
),
you can follow these patterns:
Row-based Formats (ex: JSON)
Files should have records with the following fields, with _value
being a
JSON-deserializable item:
_key
_value
_timestamp
This will result in the following Kafka message format for Application
:
- Message
key
will be the record_key
asbytes
. - Message
value
will be the record_value
as ajson
/dict
- Message
timestamp
will be the record_timestamp
(ms).
Columnar Formats (ex: Parquet)
These do not expect an explicit value
field; instead all columns should be included
individually while including _key
and _timestamp
:
_key
_timestamp
field_a
field_b
etc...
This will result in the following Kafka message format for Application
:
- Message
key
will be the record_key
asbytes
. - Message
value
will be every record field except_key
and_timestamp
packed as ajson
/dict
- Message
timestamp
will be the record_timestamp
(ms).
Custom Schemas (Advanced)
If the original files are not formatted as expected, custom loaders can be configured
on some Format
classes (ex: JsonFormat
) which can be handed to FileSource(format=<Format>)
.
Formats can be imported from quixstreams.sources.community.file.formats
.
Processing/Delivery Guarantees
This Source offers "at-least-once" guarantees with message delivery: messages are guaranteed to be committed when a file is finished processing.
However, it does not save any state/position: an unhandled exception will cause the
Application
to fail, and rerunning the Application
will begin processing from the
beginning (reproducing all previously processed messages).
Topic
The default topic will have a partition count that reflects the partition count found within the provided topic's folder structure.
The default topic name the Application dumps to is based on the last folder name of
the FileSource
directory
as: source__<last folder name>
.