readTextFile reads a file line-wise.
Is it possible, that your first line only contains "{"?
2016-04-28 8:06 GMT+02:00 Punit Naik <naik.puni...@gmail.com>:
> I have a test file which has a json per line. When I do a flatMap on it, it
> automatically splits the whole json line on every character. Why does this
> happen?
>
> So if I do:
>
>
> val data=env.readTextFile("file:///home/punit/vik-in")
> val j=data.flatMap { x=>x }
> j.first(1).print()
>
> This prints "{"
>
> --
> Thank You
>
> Regards
>
> Punit Naik
>
