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ConvertToDeltaCommand (ConvertToDeltaCommandBase)

ConvertToDeltaCommand is a DeltaCommand that converts a parquet table to delta format (imports it into Delta).

ConvertToDeltaCommand is a RunnableCommand (Spark SQL).

ConvertToDeltaCommand requires that the partition schema matches the partitions of the parquet table (or an AnalysisException is thrown)

Creating Instance

ConvertToDeltaCommand takes the following to be created:

  • Parquet table (TableIdentifier)
  • Partition schema (Option[StructType])
  • Delta Path (Option[String])

ConvertToDeltaCommand is created when:

Executing Command

run(
  spark: SparkSession): Seq[Row]

run is part of the RunnableCommand (Spark SQL) contract.

run creates a ConvertProperties from the TableIdentifier (with the given SparkSession).

run makes sure that the (data source) provider (the database part of the TableIdentifier) is either delta or parquet. For all other data source providers, run throws an AnalysisException:

CONVERT TO DELTA only supports parquet tables, but you are trying to convert a [sourceName] source: [ident]

For delta data source provider, run simply prints out the following message to standard output and returns.

The table you are trying to convert is already a delta table

For parquet data source provider, run uses DeltaLog utility to create a DeltaLog. run then requests DeltaLog to update and start a new transaction. In the end, run performConvert.

In case the readVersion of the new transaction is greater than -1, run simply prints out the following message to standard output and returns.

The table you are trying to convert is already a delta table

performConvert

performConvert(
  spark: SparkSession,
  txn: OptimisticTransaction,
  convertProperties: ConvertTarget): Seq[Row]

performConvert makes sure that the directory exists (from the given ConvertProperties which is the table part of the TableIdentifier of the command).

performConvert requests the OptimisticTransaction for the DeltaLog that is then requested to ensureLogDirectoryExist.

performConvert creates a Dataset to recursively list directories and files in the directory and leaves only files (by filtering out directories using WHERE clause).

Note

performConvert uses Dataset API to build a distributed computation to query files.

performConvert caches the Dataset of file names.

performConvert uses spark.databricks.delta.import.batchSize.schemaInference configuration property for the number of files per batch for schema inference. performConvert mergeSchemasInParallel for every batch of files and then mergeSchemas.

performConvert constructTableSchema using the inferred table schema and the partitionSchema (if specified).

performConvert creates a new Metadata using the table schema and the partitionSchema (if specified).

performConvert requests the OptimisticTransaction to update the metadata.

performConvert uses spark.databricks.delta.import.batchSize.statsCollection configuration property for the number of files per batch for stats collection. performConvert creates an AddFile (in the data path of the DeltaLog of the OptimisticTransaction) for every file in a batch.

In the end, performConvert streamWrite (with the OptimisticTransaction, the AddFiles, and Convert operation) and unpersists the Dataset of file names.

checkColumnMapping

checkColumnMapping(
  txnMetadata: Metadata,
  convertTargetTable: ConvertTargetTable): Unit

checkColumnMapping throws a DeltaColumnMappingUnsupportedException when the requiredColumnMappingMode of the given ConvertTargetTable is not DeltaColumnMappingMode of the given Metadata.

streamWrite

streamWrite(
  spark: SparkSession,
  txn: OptimisticTransaction,
  addFiles: Iterator[AddFile],
  op: DeltaOperations.Operation,
  numFiles: Long): Long

streamWrite...FIXME

createAddFile

createAddFile(
  file: SerializableFileStatus,
  basePath: Path,
  fs: FileSystem,
  conf: SQLConf): AddFile

createAddFile creates an AddFile action.

Internally, createAddFile...FIXME

createAddFile throws an AnalysisException if the number of fields in the given partition schema does not match the number of partitions found (at partition discovery phase):

Expecting [size] partition column(s): [expectedCols], but found [size] partition column(s): [parsedCols] from parsing the file name: [path]

mergeSchemasInParallel

mergeSchemasInParallel(
  sparkSession: SparkSession,
  filesToTouch: Seq[FileStatus],
  serializedConf: SerializableConfiguration): Option[StructType]

mergeSchemasInParallel...FIXME

constructTableSchema

constructTableSchema(
  spark: SparkSession,
  dataSchema: StructType,
  partitionFields: Seq[StructField]): StructType

constructTableSchema...FIXME

ConvertToDeltaCommandBase

ConvertToDeltaCommandBase is the base of ConvertToDeltaCommand-like commands with the only known implementation being ConvertToDeltaCommand itself.

isCatalogTable

isCatalogTable(
  analyzer: Analyzer,
  tableIdent: TableIdentifier): Boolean

isCatalogTable...FIXME

isCatalogTable is part of the DeltaCommand abstraction.

getTargetTable

getTargetTable(
  spark: SparkSession,
  target: ConvertTarget): ConvertTargetTable

getTargetTable...FIXME

getTargetTable is used when: