How to load .csv file and read it in Flume?

[#1]

Hi,

I would like to know, How to load .csv file from spool dir into HDFS using Flume and read its contains?

Can anyone help me on this?

[#2 · Accepted solution]

here's an example, file type doesn't matter as everything is bytes. You can the ingest csv with Hive, pig or spark. http://www.lampdev.org/programming/hadoop/apache-flume-spooldir-sink-tutorial.html