How to read gcs paths with square barkets?

[Sparktaculer]

Hi!

I'm trying to read a file using Scala from gcs that has square brackets in the file path.

I keep getting the following error:URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index 209

I tried putting an extra front slash in front of them but it still didn't work.

Would really appreciate you're help ere!

[Sparktaculer]

Hi @Retired_mod ! Thank you for your help.

However, when I tray using you're code I still get an error : "URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index "

I'm trying to read a txt file. This is the file path: 

"gs://my-bucket/my Data/sparkTests/GM-1220, reading a txt/Version1/3 Model Creation/3 models_to_check/[no_country] (2)/test.txt"

This is how I'm trying to read the file:

def loadFromGCS(gcsUrl: String😞 (String, Boolean, RecordClassifier) = {

  val content = spark.sparkContext.textFile(gcsUrl).collect().mkString("\n")

  print(content)}

[Tharun-Kumar]

Hi @Sparktaculer 

In Spark, you can disable the option globPaths. This will skip the pattern matching that happens during file reads.

spark.read.option("__globPaths__", False).format("").load("path[]")

[Anonymous]

Hi @Sparktaculer, 

We haven't heard from you since the last response from @Tharun-Kumar and @Retired_mod , and I was checking back to see if her suggestions helped you.

Or else, If you have any solution, please share it with the community, as it can be helpful to others. 

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[Sparktaculer]

Hi @Kaniz ! Thank you for your help.

However, when I try using you're code I still get an error: "URISyntaxException: Illegal character in path at index "

I'm trying to read a txt file. This is the file path: 

"gs://my-bucket/my Data/sparkTests/GM-1220, reading a txt/Version1/3 Model Creation/3 models_to_check/[no_country] (2)/test.txt"

This is how I'm trying to read the file:

def loadFromGCS(gcsUrl: String
 (String, Boolean, RecordClassifier) = {

  val content = spark.sparkContext.textFile(gcsUrl).collect().mkString("\n")

  print(content)}