Read SAS sas7bdat data with Spark

Question

I have a SAS table and I try to read it with Spark. I've try to use this https://github.com/saurfang/spark-sas7bdat like but I couldn't get it to work.

Here is the code:

from pyspark.sql import SQLContext

sqlContext = SQLContext(sc)
df = sqlContext.read.format("com.github.saurfang.sas.spark").load("my_table.sas7bdat")

It returns this error:

Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o878.load.
: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Failed to find data source: com.github.saurfang.sas.spark. Please find packages at http://spark.apache.org/third-party-projects.html
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource$.lookupDataSource(DataSource.scala:635)
at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.load(DataFrameReader.scala:190)
at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrameReader.load(DataFrameReader.scala:174)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:244)
at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357)
at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:282)
at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:132)
at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:238)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.github.saurfang.sas.spark.DefaultSource
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource$$anonfun$23$$anonfun$apply$15.apply(DataSource.scala:618)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource$$anonfun$23$$anonfun$apply$15.apply(DataSource.scala:618)
at scala.util.Try$.apply(Try.scala:192)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource$$anonfun$23.apply(DataSource.scala:618)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource$$anonfun$23.apply(DataSource.scala:618)
at scala.util.Try.orElse(Try.scala:84)
at org.apache.spark.sql.execution.datasources.DataSource$.lookupDataSource(DataSource.scala:618)...

Any ideas?

Answer 1

It looks like the package was not imported correctly. You have to use --packages saurfang:spark-sas7bdat:2.0.0-s_2.10 when running spark-submit or pyspark. See: https://spark-packages.org/package/saurfang/spark-sas7bdat

You could also download the JAR file from that page, and run your pyspark or spark-submit command with --jars /path/to/jar