[BEAM-138] Extend TextIO to new protocols (and maybe rename to FileIO)

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P2
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: Not applicable
• Component/s: io-java-text
• Assignee: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
• Reporter: Jean-Baptiste Onofré
• Created: 21/Mar/16 09:36
• Updated: 16/May/20 13:54
• Resolved: 21/Mar/16 17:03

Description

The current TextIO supports:

• local file when using directly path like /path/to...
• Google Service file using path like gs:...

On the other hand, we have a contribution (from Tom) to support HDFS.

For an user perspective, it would be easier to use an unique IO supporting different protocol:

• file:
• gs:
• hdfs:
• mvn:
• ...

It would also be convenient to be able to combine protocols and eventually use a different coder (for instance xml:hdfs.
In that case, maybe I would make sense to rename TextIO as generic FileIO.

Thoughts ?

Issue Links

• duplicates: BEAM-59 Switch from IOChannelFactory to FileSystems