[SPARK-2759] The ability to read binary files into Spark

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: Input/Output, Java API, Spark Core
• Target Version/s: 1.2.0
• Assignee: Kevin Mader
• Reporter: Kevin Mader
• Created: 31/Jul/14 00:19
• Updated: 01/Nov/14 19:00
• Resolved: 01/Nov/14 19:00

Description

For reading images, compressed files, or other custom formats it would be useful to have methods that could read the files in as a byte array or DataInputStream so other functions could then process the data.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #1658 (kmader)