How to read index layer data

The Data Client Library provides the class LayerDataFrameReader, a custom Spark DataFrameReader for creating DataFrames that contain the data for all supported layer type including index layer.

All the formats supported by DataFrameReader are also supported by the LayerDataFrameReader. Additionally, formats such as Apache Avro, Apache Parquet, Protobuf and raw byte arrays (octet-stream).

When you are reading from an index layer certain restrictions apply. See Get Data from an Index Layer which contains information about restrictions and known limitations.

Read process

Read operation works according to the following steps:

Spark connector starts with a first communication with the server to get some useful information. For example layer type, layer schema, layer encoding format, etc.
Partitions within the layer get filtered using the provided filter query. If the query is not provided, the value "timestamp=ge=0" will be used by default, and it would mean that all the partitions will be matched.
At this stage, we know the layer format. We can now create its Spark corresponding file format and with partition data, we have an iterator of rows (records).
Some implicit columns will be added to each row depending on the layer type and partition metadata.
The resulting rows will be handed over to the Spark framework to return the finalized DataFrame.

Read with pagination

Spark supports query index data in parallel, just define quantity of desired parts and add option olp.connector.query-parallelism to reader.

val reader = sparkSession
  .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
  .format("raw")
  .query(
    "tileId=INBOUNDINGBOX=(23.648524, 22.689013, 62.284241, 60.218811) and eventType==SignRecognition")
  .option("olp.connector.metadata-columns", true)
  .option("olp.connector.query-parallelism", 100)

if (compressed)
  reader.option("olp.connector.data-decompression-timeout", 1200000)

val df: DataFrame = reader.load()

Dataset<Row> df =
    JavaLayerDataFrameReader.create(sparkSession)
        .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
        .format("raw")
        .query(
            "tileId=INBOUNDINGBOX=(23.648524, 22.689013, 62.284241, 60.218811) and eventType==SignRecognition")
        .option("olp.connector.metadata-columns", true)
        .option("olp.connector.query-parallelism", 100)
        .load();

Dataframe columns

Besides the user-defined columns which derive from the partition data, Spark connector provides additional columns used to represent the data partitioning information and partition payload attributes.

Data columns

Corresponds to user defined columns and derives from the partition data.

Layer partitioning columns

Corresponds to user defined index layer partitioning columns. They have the same names as the layer definition but with the idx_ prefix following the type conversions as defined below:

Index type	Data Type
bool	Boolean
int	Long
string	String
HERETile	Long
HERETime	Long

Partition payload attribute columns

Column name	Data Type	Meaning
`mt_metadata`	Map[String, String]	Metadata of partition
`mt_timestamp`	Long	Timestamp of creation (UTC)
`mt_checksum`	String	Checksum of payload
`mt_crc`	String	CRC of payload
`mt_dataSize`	Long	Size of payload
`mt_compressedDataSize`	Long	Compressed size of payload

Project Dependencies

If you want to create an application that uses the HERE platform Spark Connector to read data from index layer, add the required dependencies to your project as described in chapter Dependencies for Spark Connector.

Read Parquet-Encoded Data

The following snippet demonstrates how to access a Parquet-encoded DataFrame from an index layer of a catalog. Note that the parquet schema is expected to be bundled with the data. Therefore, you don't need to specify the format explicitly.

import com.here.platform.data.client.spark.LayerDataFrameReader.SparkSessionExt
import com.here.platform.pipeline.PipelineContext
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val sparkSession: org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val catalogHrn: HRN (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// val layerId: String (ID of an index layer containing parquet-encoded SDII data that at a minimum
// contains the indexing attributes 'tileId' and 'eventType')
val reader = sparkSession
  .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
  //.format("parquet")
  .query(
    "tileId=INBOUNDINGBOX=(23.648524, 22.689013, 62.284241, 60.218811) and eventType==SignRecognition")
  .option("olp.connector.metadata-columns", true)
  .option("olp.connector.query-parallelism", 100)

if (compressed)
  reader.option("olp.connector.data-decompression-timeout", 1200000)

val df = reader.load()

df.printSchema()

df.show()

val messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition = df
  .select("pathEvents.signRecognition")
  .where("size(pathEvents.signRecognition) > 0")

val count = messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition.count()

import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession;
// org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession sparkSession
// HRN catalogHrn (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// String layerId (ID of an index layer containing parquet-encoded SDII data that at a minimum
// contains the indexing attributes 'tileId' and 'eventType')
Dataset<Row> df =
    JavaLayerDataFrameReader.create(sparkSession)
        .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
        // .format("parquet")
        .query(
            "tileId=INBOUNDINGBOX=(23.648524, 22.689013, 62.284241, 60.218811) and eventType==SignRecognition")
        .option("olp.connector.query-parallelism", 100)
        .load();

long messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognitionCount =
    df.select("pathEvents.signRecognition")
        .where("size(pathEvents.signRecognition) > 0")
        .count();

Read Avro-Encoded Data

The following snippet demonstrates how to access an Avro-encoded DataFrame from an index layer of a catalog. Note that the avro schema is expected to be bundled with the data. Therefore, you don't need to specify the format explicitly.

import com.here.platform.data.client.spark.LayerDataFrameReader.SparkSessionExt
import com.here.platform.pipeline.PipelineContext
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val sparkSession: org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val catalogHrn: HRN (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// val layerId: String (ID of an index layer containing avro-encoded SDII data that at a minimum
// contains the indexing attributes 'tileId' and 'eventType')
val reader = sparkSession
  .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
  //.format("avro")
  .query(
    "tileId=INBOUNDINGBOX=(23.648524, 22.689013, 62.284241, 60.218811) and eventType==SignRecognition")
  .option("olp.connector.query-parallelism", 100)

if (compressed)
  reader.option("olp.connector.data-decompression-timeout", 1200000)

val df: DataFrame = reader.load()

val messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition = df
  .select("pathEvents.signRecognition")
  .where("size(pathEvents.signRecognition) > 0")

val count = messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition.count()

import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession;
// org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession sparkSession
// HRN catalogHrn (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// String layerId (ID of an index layer containing avro-encoded SDII data that at a minimum
// contains the indexing attributes 'tileId' and 'eventType')
Dataset<Row> df =
    JavaLayerDataFrameReader.create(sparkSession)
        .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
        // .format("avro")
        .query(
            "tileId=INBOUNDINGBOX=(23.648524, 22.689013, 62.284241, 60.218811) and eventType==SignRecognition")
        .option("olp.connector.query-parallelism", 100)
        .load();

Dataset<Row> messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition =
    df.select("pathEvents.signRecognition").where("size(pathEvents.signRecognition) > 0");

long count = messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition.count();

Read Protobuf-Encoded Data

The following snippet demonstrates how to access a Protobuf-encoded DataFrame from an index layer of a catalog. Note that the protobuf schema is expected to be referenced from the layer configuration. Therefore, you don't need to specify the format explicitly.

import com.here.platform.data.client.spark.LayerDataFrameReader.SparkSessionExt
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
import org.apache.spark.sql.functions.size
// val sparkSession: org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val catalogHrn: HRN (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// val layerId: String (ID of an index layer containing protobuf-encoded SDII data that at a minimum
// contains the indexing attributes 'tileId' and 'eventType')
val reader = sparkSession
  .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
  //.format("protobuf")
  .query(
    "tileId=INBOUNDINGBOX=(23.648524, 22.689013, 62.284241, 60.218811) and eventType==SignRecognition")
  .option("olp.connector.metadata-columns", true)
  .option("olp.connector.query-parallelism", 100)

if (compressed)
  reader.option("olp.connector.data-decompression-timeout", 1200000)

val df = reader.load()

val sqlContext = sparkSession.sqlContext
import sqlContext.implicits._

val messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition = df
  .select("mt_dataHandle", "message.pathEvents.signRecognition")
  .where("size(message.pathEvents.signRecognition) > 0")

val dataHandle = messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition
  .select("mt_dataHandle")
  .head()
  .getString(0)

// Protobuf schema is of an SDII MessageList, so `size()` is used to compute the
// length of the `WrappedArray` (one array per SDII Message)
// Resulting `DataFrame` is a single row with a count, so `.head().getInt(0)` is used
// to retrieve the value
val count: Int = messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition
  .select(size($"signRecognition"))
  .head()
  .getInt(0)

import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession;
// org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession sparkSession
// HRN catalogHrn (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// String layerId (ID of an index layer containing protobuf-encoded SDII data that at a minimum
// contains the indexing attributes 'tileId' and 'eventType')
Dataset<Row> df =
    JavaLayerDataFrameReader.create(sparkSession)
        .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
        // .format("protobuf")
        .query(
            "tileId=INBOUNDINGBOX=(23.648524, 22.689013, 62.284241, 60.218811) and eventType==SignRecognition")
        .option("olp.connector.metadata-columns", true)
        .option("olp.connector.query-parallelism", 100)
        .load();

Dataset<Row> messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition =
    df.select("mt_dataHandle", "message.pathEvents.signRecognition")
        .where("size(message.pathEvents.signRecognition) > 0");

String dataHandle =
    messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition.select("mt_dataHandle").head().getString(0);

// Protobuf schema is of an SDII MessageList, so `size()` is used to compute the
// length of the `WrappedArray` (one array per SDII Message)
// Resulting `DataFrame` is a single row with a count, so `.head().getInt(0)` is used
// to retrieve the value
int count =
    messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition
        .select(size(new Column("signRecognition")))
        .head()
        .getInt(0);

Note that to read protobuf data from a layer, the schema must be specified in the layer configuration and needs to be available on Artifact Service. Furthermore the schema must have a ds variant. For more information on how to maintain schemas, see the Archetypes Developer's Guide.

Read Csv-Encoded Data

The following snippet demonstrates how to access a Csv-encoded DataFrame from an index layer of a catalog. In this example, the csv row contains columns field1 as integer and field2 as string.

import com.here.platform.data.client.spark.LayerDataFrameReader.SparkSessionExt
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val sparkSession: org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val catalogHrn: HRN (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// val layerId: String (ID of index layer)
val df = sparkSession
  .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
  .query("eventType==SignRecognition")
  .load()

df.select("idx_eventType", "field1").where("field1 > 0").show()

df.printSchema()

import static org.apache.spark.sql.functions.*;

import com.here.hrn.HRN;
import com.here.platform.data.client.spark.javadsl.JavaLayerDataFrameReader;
import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession;
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.IntegerType;
// val sparkSession: org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val catalogHrn: HRN (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// val layerId: String (ID of an index layer)
Dataset<Row> dataFrame =
    JavaLayerDataFrameReader.create(sparkSession)
        .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
        .query("eventId=in=(1,2,3)")
        .load();

dataFrame.select("idx_eventId", "field1").where("field1 > 0").show();

dataFrame.printSchema();

Read Text-Encoded Data

The following snippet demonstrates how to access a Text-encoded DataFrame from an index layer of a catalog. In this example, the row object contains field data as string.

Note

Restrictions
While reading Text data, each line becomes each row that has string value column by default. Therefore, Text data source has only a single column value per row.

import com.here.platform.data.client.spark.LayerDataFrameReader.SparkSessionExt
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val sparkSession: org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val catalogHrn: HRN (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// val layerId: String (ID of index layer)
val df = sparkSession
  .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
  .query("eventType==SignRecognition")
  .load()

df.select("idx_eventId", "value").show()

df.printSchema()

import static org.apache.spark.sql.functions.*;

import com.here.hrn.HRN;
import com.here.platform.data.client.spark.javadsl.JavaLayerDataFrameReader;
import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession;
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.IntegerType;
// val sparkSession: org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val catalogHrn: HRN (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// val layerId: String (ID of an index layer)
Dataset<Row> dataFrame =
    JavaLayerDataFrameReader.create(sparkSession)
        .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
        .query("eventId=in=(1,2,3)")
        .load();

dataFrame.select("idx_eventId", "value").show();

dataFrame.printSchema();

Read JSON-Encoded Data

The following snippet demonstrates how to access a JSON-encoded DataFrame from an index layer of a catalog. In this example, the JSON object contains property intVal as integer and strVal as string.

import com.here.platform.data.client.spark.LayerDataFrameReader.SparkSessionExt
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val sparkSession: org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val catalogHrn: HRN (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// val layerId: String (ID of index layer)
val df = sparkSession
  .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
  .query("eventType==SignRecognition")
  .load()

df.select("idx_eventType", "intVal").where("intVal > 0").show()

df.printSchema()

import static org.apache.spark.sql.functions.*;

import com.here.hrn.HRN;
import com.here.platform.data.client.spark.javadsl.JavaLayerDataFrameReader;
import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession;
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.IntegerType;
// val sparkSession: org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val catalogHrn: HRN (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// val layerId: String (ID of an index layer)
Dataset<Row> dataFrame =
    JavaLayerDataFrameReader.create(sparkSession)
        .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
        .query("eventId=in=(1,2,3)")
        .load();

dataFrame.select("idx_eventId", "intVal").where("intVal > 0").show();

dataFrame.printSchema();

Read Other Formats

The following snippet demonstrates how to access data in any arbitrary format from an index layer of a catalog:

import org.apache.spark.sql._
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.{DataTypes, Metadata, StructField, StructType}
val schema: StructType = new StructType(
  Array[StructField](
    StructField("mt_dataHandle", DataTypes.StringType, nullable = false, Metadata.empty),
    StructField("signRecognitionCount", DataTypes.IntegerType, nullable = false, Metadata.empty)
  ))
// val sparkSession: org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession
// val catalogHrn: HRN (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
// val layerId: String (ID of an index layer containing protobuf-encoded SDII data that at a minimum
// contains the indexing attributes 'tileId' and 'eventType')
/// [spark-index-query-withparts]
val reader = sparkSession
  .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
  .format("raw")
  .query(
    "tileId=INBOUNDINGBOX=(23.648524, 22.689013, 62.284241, 60.218811) and eventType==SignRecognition")
  .option("olp.connector.metadata-columns", true)
  .option("olp.connector.query-parallelism", 100)

if (compressed)
  reader.option("olp.connector.data-decompression-timeout", 1200000)

val df: DataFrame = reader.load()
/// [spark-index-query-withparts]
val dfSignRecognitionCount: DataFrame = df.flatMap { row: Row =>
  val messageList: mutable.Buffer[SdiiMessage.Message] =
    SdiiMessageList.MessageList.parseFrom(row.getAs[Array[Byte]]("data")).getMessageList.asScala

  messageList.map { message =>
    RowFactory.create(row.getAs[Object]("mt_dataHandle"),
                      message.getPathEvents.getSignRecognitionCount.asInstanceOf[Object])
  }
}(ExpressionEncoder(schema))

val messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition = dfSignRecognitionCount
  .select("mt_dataHandle", "signRecognitionCount")
  .where("signRecognitionCount > 0")

val dataHandles = messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition
  .map[String]((r: Row) => r.getAs[String]("mt_dataHandle"))(Encoders.STRING)
  .dropDuplicates()
  .collectAsList()

val count = messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition.count()

import com.here.platform.data.client.spark.javadsl.JavaLayerDataFrameReader;
import org.apache.spark.api.java.function.FlatMapFunction;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Dataset;
import org.apache.spark.sql.Row;
import org.apache.spark.sql.RowFactory;
import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession;
import org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.encoders.RowEncoder;
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.DataTypes;
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.Metadata;
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructField;
import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType;
StructType schema =
    new StructType(
        new StructField[] {
          new StructField("mt_dataHandle", DataTypes.StringType, false, Metadata.empty()),
          new StructField(
              "signRecognitionCount", DataTypes.IntegerType, false, Metadata.empty())
        });
// org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession sparkSession
// HRN catalogHrn (HRN of a catalog that contains the layer $layerId)
/// [spark-index-query-withparts]
Dataset<Row> df =
    JavaLayerDataFrameReader.create(sparkSession)
        .readLayer(catalogHrn, layerId)
        .format("raw")
        .query(
            "tileId=INBOUNDINGBOX=(23.648524, 22.689013, 62.284241, 60.218811) and eventType==SignRecognition")
        .option("olp.connector.metadata-columns", true)
        .option("olp.connector.query-parallelism", 100)
        .load();
/// [spark-index-query-withparts]
Dataset<Row> dfSignRecognitionCount =
    df.flatMap(
        (FlatMapFunction<Row, Row>)
            row ->
                SdiiMessageList.MessageList.parseFrom(row.<byte[]>getAs("data"))
                    .getMessageList().stream()
                    .map(
                        m ->
                            RowFactory.create(
                                row.getAs("mt_dataHandle"),
                                m.getPathEvents().getSignRecognitionCount()))
                    .iterator(),
        ExpressionEncoder.apply(schema));

Dataset<Row> messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition =
    dfSignRecognitionCount
        .select("mt_dataHandle", "signRecognitionCount")
        .where("signRecognitionCount > 0");

List<String> dataHandles =
    messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition
        .map((MapFunction<Row, String>) row -> row.getAs("mt_dataHandle"), Encoders.STRING())
        .dropDuplicates()
        .collectAsList();

long count = messagesWithAtLeastOneSignRecognition.count();

Known issues

DataFrame contains the columns representing the index layer structure definition but the relative location of these columns is at the very end, where they should be located before the metadata columns.
If these column values are not present we use some defaults instead of NULL values.
Location of these columns should be at the very end of the row but they are located right after the payload columns.

Note

raw format refers to application/octet-stream in layer config and not to be confused with raw layer config.

For information on RSQL, see RSQL.

Updated 21 days ago