hadoop - Spark Scala list folders in directory

Question

I want to list all folders within a hdfs directory using Scala/Spark. In Hadoop I can do this by using the command: hadoop fs -ls hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com/demo/

I tried it with:

val conf = new Configuration()
val fs = FileSystem.get(new URI("hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com/"), conf)

val path = new Path("hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com/demo/")

val files = fs.listFiles(path, false)

But it does not seem that he looks in the Hadoop directory as i cannot find my folders/files.

I also tried with:

FileSystem.get(sc.hadoopConfiguration).listFiles(new Path("hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com/demo/"), true)

But this also does not help.

Do you have any other idea?

PS: I also checked this thread: Spark iterate HDFS directory but it does not work for me as it does not seem to search on hdfs directory, instead only on the local file system with schema file//.

Answer 1

We are using hadoop 1.4 and it doesn't have listFiles method so we use listStatus to get directories. It doesn't have recursive option but it is easy to manage recursive lookup.

val fs = FileSystem.get(new Configuration())
val status = fs.listStatus(new Path(YOUR_HDFS_PATH))
status.foreach(x=> println(x.getPath))