It should be val file = sc.textFile("hdfs:///localhost:9000/sigmoid/input.txt")
3 “///” Thanks Tri From: rapelly kartheek [mailto:kartheek.m...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 9:42 AM To: Akhil Das; user@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: Read a HDFS file from Spark using HDFS API No. I am not accessing hdfs from either shell or a spark application. I want to access from spark "Scheduler code". I face an error when I use sc.textFile() as SparkContext wouldn't have been created yet. So, error says: "sc not found". On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Akhil Das <ak...@sigmoidanalytics.com<mailto:ak...@sigmoidanalytics.com>> wrote: like this? val file = sc.textFile("hdfs://localhost:9000/sigmoid/input.txt") Thanks Best Regards On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 9:02 PM, rapelly kartheek <kartheek.m...@gmail.com<mailto:kartheek.m...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, I am trying to read a HDFS file from Spark "scheduler code". I could find how to write hdfs read/writes in java. But I need to access hdfs from spark using scala. Can someone please help me in this regard.