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jonjoseph
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Fabric Notebook how do I loop files in a folder?

Hi,

So complete newbie to the cloud coming from on premise MS stack.

Trying to put together a PoC end to end.

I have created a lakehouse.

So far I have dumped data from an external system to csv locally.

Plan is to use One lake file explorer to synch files to the cloud.

So now I have a folder with multiple csv files in my lakehouse

I want to use a notebook to read those files and dump them into parquet.

For the life of me I cannot find anything on how to loop the folder, tried os and glob, but I don't know what path to pass in.

Not sure this is the right approach, but the idea is I create a new folder each day of staging data csv files.

Somehow move it to parquet files, and compare the data from the day before to work out whats new and modified.

Then use dbt to transform data and finally load it to datawarehouse.

So back to load the path to loop in the notebook

Thanks

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jonjoseph
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Copy file API path with os.listdir worked!

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smpa01
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@jonjoseph  if I understood correctly, you have this

smpa01_0-1700592675016.png

 

Grab the ABFS path and utilize in the notebook

smpa01_1-1700592830458.png

 

// Replace this with your actual folder path
val files = "abfss://workspace@onelake.dfs.fabric.microsoft.com/testLH2.Lakehouse/Files/DailyFiles"

// Read each CSV file in the folder
val df = spark.read.option("header", "true").csv(files)
.select("*", "_metadata.file_name","_metadata.file_modification_time")

display(df)

 

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jonjoseph
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Copy file API path with os.listdir worked!

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Hi @jonjoseph ,

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