Error Connecting to Delta Share

Hi jjaeger94 ,

I think I found the solution here. In your compute you need to go to the Advanced settings in the configuration tab.
Spark > Spark config

There you can enter some advanced settings. You need to add this:

spark.databricks.delta.formatCheck.enabled false

other than that have the python module installed in the libraries tab in the compute via PyPi:

delta-sharing

The config.share file should be added in your dbfs directory so that spark will be able to accesss it.

This is the python script I am using to get the data from a deltashare using the config.share file:

config_share_path = '/dbfs/FileStore/deltashare/config.share'
import delta_sharing

# Point to the profile file. It can be a file on the local file system or a file on a remote storage.
profile_path = config_share_path

# For spark to read it, the config.share path needs to be in a different format!!
profile_spark_path = config_share_path.replace("/dbfs","dbfs:")

# Create a SharingClient.
client = delta_sharing.SharingClient(profile_path)

# List all shared tables.
# client.list_all_tables()

table_name = "YourTableName"
table = [table for table in client.list_all_tables() if table.name == table_name][0]

# Create a url to access a shared table.
table_url = profile_spark_path + f"#{table.share}.{table.schema}.{table.name}"

# creating spark dataframe
sparkDataFrame = delta_sharing.load_as_spark(table_url)

# display spark dataframe
display(sparkDataFrame.head(100))

Let me know if this works for you! 🙂