topic Disable dbutils suggestion in Data Engineering

Disable dbutils suggestion

GC-James — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 09:13:11 GMT

I would like to turn off or suppress this message which is returned from the dbutils library.

%r
 
files <- dbutils.fs.ls("/dbfs/tmp/")
 
For prettier results from dbutils.fs.ls(<dir>), please use `%fs ls <dir>`

How can I do this?

Re: Disable dbutils suggestion

Prabakar — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 15:58:49 GMT

@James Smith I dont find an option to turn off this. This is just a recommendation and you can ignore it. As your command output is redirected to files, you should have only the output in files.

Re: Disable dbutils suggestion

GC-James — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 16:07:20 GMT

Hello Prabakar. Even though the command is redirected to files, the output still is printed to screen. It's very annoying. I think a ticket needs filing for this bug. There should be an option for silent = TRUE, or even better just turn this off and let people refer to the manual.

Re: Disable dbutils suggestion

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 17:06:05 GMT

@James Smith Whether it's a bug OR it's working as expected we like to hear this kind of feedback from our users, so thank you for reaching out!

My personal philosophy is "if a customer thinks it's a bug, it's a bug!" 🐛 I will be reporting this to the correct team. I'll update here as I learn more. Thanks again!

Re: Disable dbutils suggestion

Vidula — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:13:44 GMT

Hi @James Smith

Hope all is well! Just wanted to check in if you were able to resolve your issue and would you be happy to share the solution or mark an answer as best? Else please let us know if you need more help.

We'd love to hear from you.

Thanks!

Re: Disable dbutils suggestion

GC-James — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 09:18:34 GMT

I was not able to resolve this issue, and I have not been shown any solution, so I cannot mark an answer. There isn't one yet.

Re: Disable dbutils suggestion

Jfoxyyc — Fri, 10 Feb 2023 20:07:32 GMT

Hey Lindsay, was there any thoughts on being able to suppress any of the dbutils console prints? I'm using dbutils.fs.put() inside of a threaded application just because the api is really nice to use over native abfs stuff. It writes thousands of "Wrote x bytes" to the console, which isn't value add.