Thanks for the email. Don't make it that complicated. We just want to simplify the common cases (e.g. csv/parquet), and don't need this to work for everything out there.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 9:25 PM, Hyukjin Kwon <gurwls...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am planning to submit a PR for > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-8000. > > Currently, file format is not detected by the file extension unlike > compression codecs are being detected. > > I am thinking of introducing another interface (a function) at > DataSourceRegister just like shortName() at in order to specify possible > file exceptions so that we can detect datasources by file extensions just > like Hadoop does for compression codecs. > > Since adding an interface should be carefully done, I want to first ask if > this approach looks appropriate. > > Could you please give me some feedback for this? > > > Thanks! >