Exporter

Introduction

HoodieSnapshotExporter allows you to copy data from one location to another for backups or other purposes. You can write data as Hudi, Json, Orc, or Parquet file formats. In addition to copying data, you can also repartition data with a provided field or implement custom repartitioning by extending a class shown in detail below.

Arguments

HoodieSnapshotExporter accepts a reference to a source path and a destination path. The utility will issue a query, perform any repartitioning if required and will write the data as Hudi, parquet, or json format.

Argument	Description	Required	Note
--source-base-path	Base path for the source Hudi dataset to be snapshotted	required
--target-output-path	Output path for storing a particular snapshot	required
--output-format	Output format for the exported dataset; accept these values: json,parquet,hudi	required
--output-partition-field	A field to be used by Spark repartitioning	optional	Ignored when "Hudi" or when --output-partitioner is specified.The output dataset's default partition field will inherent from the source Hudi dataset.
--output-partitioner	A class to facilitate custom repartitioning	optional	Ignored when using output-format "Hudi"

Examples

Copy a Hudi dataset

Exporter scans the source dataset and then makes a copy of it to the target output path.

spark-submit \
  --jars "packaging/hudi-spark-bundle/target/hudi-spark-bundle_2.11-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" \
  --deploy-mode "client" \
  --class "org.apache.hudi.utilities.HoodieSnapshotExporter" \
      packaging/hudi-utilities-bundle/target/hudi-utilities-bundle_2.11-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar \
  --source-base-path "/tmp/" \
  --target-output-path "/tmp/exported/hudi/" \
  --output-format "hudi"

Export to json or parquet dataset

The Exporter can also convert the source dataset into other formats. Currently only "json" and "parquet" are supported.

spark-submit \
  --jars "packaging/hudi-spark-bundle/target/hudi-spark-bundle_2.11-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" \
  --deploy-mode "client" \
  --class "org.apache.hudi.utilities.HoodieSnapshotExporter" \
      packaging/hudi-utilities-bundle/target/hudi-utilities-bundle_2.11-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar \
  --source-base-path "/tmp/" \
  --target-output-path "/tmp/exported/json/" \
  --output-format "json"  # or "parquet"

Re-partitioning

When exporting to a different format, the Exporter takes the --output-partition-field parameter to do some custom re-partitioning. Note: All _hoodie_* metadata fields will be stripped during export, so make sure to use an existing non-metadata field as the output partitions.

By default, if no partitioning parameters are given, the output dataset will have no partition.

Example:

spark-submit \
  --jars "packaging/hudi-spark-bundle/target/hudi-spark-bundle_2.11-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar" \
  --deploy-mode "client" \
  --class "org.apache.hudi.utilities.HoodieSnapshotExporter" \
      packaging/hudi-utilities-bundle/target/hudi-utilities-bundle_2.11-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar \  
  --source-base-path "/tmp/" \
  --target-output-path "/tmp/exported/json/" \
  --output-format "json" \
  --output-partition-field "symbol"  # assume the source dataset contains a field `symbol`

The output directory will look like this

`_SUCCESS symbol=AMRS symbol=AYX symbol=CDMO symbol=CRC symbol=DRNA ...`

Custom Re-partitioning

--output-partitioner parameter takes in a fully-qualified name of a class that implements HoodieSnapshotExporter.Partitioner. This parameter takes higher precedence than --output-partition-field, which will be ignored if this is provided.

An example implementation is shown below:

MyPartitioner.java

package com.foo.bar;
public class MyPartitioner implements HoodieSnapshotExporter.Partitioner {

  private static final String PARTITION_NAME = "date";
 
  @Override
  public DataFrameWriter<Row> partition(Dataset<Row> source) {
    // use the current hoodie partition path as the output partition
    return source
        .withColumnRenamed(HoodieRecord.PARTITION_PATH_METADATA_FIELD, PARTITION_NAME)
        .repartition(new Column(PARTITION_NAME))
        .write()
        .partitionBy(PARTITION_NAME);
  }
}

After putting this class in my-custom.jar, which is then placed on the job classpath, the submit command will look like this:

spark-submit \
  --jars "packaging/hudi-spark-bundle/target/hudi-spark-bundle_2.11-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar,my-custom.jar" \
  --deploy-mode "client" \
  --class "org.apache.hudi.utilities.HoodieSnapshotExporter" \
      packaging/hudi-utilities-bundle/target/hudi-utilities-bundle_2.11-0.6.0-SNAPSHOT.jar \
  --source-base-path "/tmp/" \
  --target-output-path "/tmp/exported/json/" \
  --output-format "json" \
  --output-partitioner "com.foo.bar.MyPartitioner"