Reading BigQuery Table Data in for of Java Classes(Pojo)

Question

I need to read the Table Data from Bigquery using dataflow but instead of using/storing data into TableRow Class. I want to Store Data in Java Pojo Classes, is there any method using that I directly map the data into Pojo.

Way2:

GenericRecord s = schemaAndRecord.getRecord();

            org.apache.avro.Schema s1 = s.getSchema();
            for (Field f : s1.getFields()) {
                counter++;      
                mapping.put(f.name(), null==s.get(f.name())?null:String.valueOf(s.get(counter)));
                if(f.name().equalsIgnoreCase("reason_code_id")) {
                    BigDecimal numericValue =
                            new Conversions.DecimalConversion()
                                .fromBytes((ByteBuffer)s.get(f.name()) , Schema.create(s1.getType()), s1.getLogicalType());
                    System.out.println("Numeric Con"+numericValue);
                }
                else {
                        System.out.println("Else Condition "+f.name());
                }
            }
            ```

Facing Issue:

2019-05-24 (14:10:37) org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException: Can't create a: RECORD

StackTrace

java.io.IOException: Failed to start reading from source: gs://trusted-bucket/mgp/temp/BigQueryExtractTemp/3a5365f1e53d4dd393f0eda15a2c6bd4/000000000000.avro range [0, 65461)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.WorkerCustomSources$BoundedReaderIterator.start(WorkerCustomSources.java:596)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.util.common.worker.ReadOperation$SynchronizedReaderIterator.start(ReadOperation.java:361)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.util.common.worker.ReadOperation.runReadLoop(ReadOperation.java:194)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.util.common.worker.ReadOperation.start(ReadOperation.java:159)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.util.common.worker.MapTaskExecutor.execute(MapTaskExecutor.java:77)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.BatchDataflowWorker.executeWork(BatchDataflowWorker.java:411)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.BatchDataflowWorker.doWork(BatchDataflowWorker.java:380)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.BatchDataflowWorker.getAndPerformWork(BatchDataflowWorker.java:306)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.DataflowBatchWorkerHarness$WorkerThread.doWork(DataflowBatchWorkerHarness.java:135)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.DataflowBatchWorkerHarness$WorkerThread.call(DataflowBatchWorkerHarness.java:115)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.DataflowBatchWorkerHarness$WorkerThread.call(DataflowBatchWorkerHarness.java:102)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: org.apache.avro.AvroRuntimeException: Can't create a: RECORD
    at org.apache.avro.Schema.create(Schema.java:120)
    at com.globalpay.WelcomeEmail.mapRecordToObject(WelcomeEmail.java:118)
    at com.globalpay.WelcomeEmail.access$0(WelcomeEmail.java:112)
    at com.globalpay.WelcomeEmail$1.apply(WelcomeEmail.java:54)
    at com.globalpay.WelcomeEmail$1.apply(WelcomeEmail.java:1)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.io.gcp.bigquery.BigQuerySourceBase$1.apply(BigQuerySourceBase.java:221)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.io.gcp.bigquery.BigQuerySourceBase$1.apply(BigQuerySourceBase.java:214)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.io.AvroSource$AvroBlock.readNextRecord(AvroSource.java:567)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.io.BlockBasedSource$BlockBasedReader.readNextRecord(BlockBasedSource.java:209)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.io.FileBasedSource$FileBasedReader.advanceImpl(FileBasedSource.java:484)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.io.FileBasedSource$FileBasedReader.startImpl(FileBasedSource.java:479)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.io.OffsetBasedSource$OffsetBasedReader.start(OffsetBasedSource.java:249)
    at org.apache.beam.runners.dataflow.worker.WorkerCustomSources$BoundedReaderIterator.start(WorkerCustomSources.java:593)
    ... 14 more

Answer 1

BigQueryIO#read(SerializableFunction) allows one to use any of the Avro to POJO conversion libraries/functions that exist.

For example, I am using the code from this blog post:

private static <T> T mapRecordToObject(GenericRecord record, T object) {
  Assert.notNull(record, "record must not be null");
  Assert.notNull(object, "object must not be null");
  final Schema schema = ReflectData.get().getSchema(object.getClass());

  Assert.isTrue(schema.getFields().equals(record.getSchema().getFields()), "Schema fields didn’t match");
  record.getSchema().getFields().forEach(d -> PropertyAccessorFactory.forDirectFieldAccess(object).setPropertyValue(d.name(), record.get(d.name()) == null ? record.get(d.name()) : record.get(d.name()).toString()));
  return object;
}

PCollection<MyType> data = pipeline.apply(
BigQueryIO
  .read(new SerializableFunction<SchemaAndRecord, MyType>() {
    public MyType apply(SchemaAndRecord schemaAndRecord) {
      return mapRecordToObject(schemaAndRecord.getRecord(), new MyType());
    }
  })
  .from("mydataset:mytable"));

The code from the blog post assumes that the avro schema was used to generate the POJO.