Reading HDFS and local files in Java

Question

I want to read file paths irrespective of whether they are HDFS or local. Currently, I pass the local paths with the prefix file:// and HDFS paths with the prefix hdfs:// and write some code as the following

Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
FileSystem fileSystem = null;
if (filePath.startsWith("hdfs://")) {
  fileSystem = FileSystem.get(configuration);
} else if (filePath.startsWith("file://")) {
  fileSystem = FileSystem.getLocal(configuration).getRawFileSystem();
}

From here I use the API's of the FileSystem to read the file.

Can you please let me know if there is any other better way than this?

Answer 1

Does this make sense,

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
    conf.addResource(new Path("/hadoop/projects/hadoop-1.0.4/conf/core-site.xml"));
    conf.addResource(new Path("/hadoop/projects/hadoop-1.0.4/conf/hdfs-site.xml"));

    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    System.out.println("Enter the file path...");
    String filePath = br.readLine();

    Path path = new Path(filePath);
    FileSystem fs = path.getFileSystem(conf);
    FSDataInputStream inputStream = fs.open(path);
    System.out.println(inputStream.available());
    fs.close();
}

You don't have to put that check if you go this way. Get the FileSystem directly from Path and then do whatever you feel like.