Get started with Google-provided templates

Google provides a set of open-source Dataflow templates. For general information about templates, see the Overview page. To get started, use the WordCount template documented in the section below. See other Google-provided templates:

Streaming templates - Templates for processing data continuously:

Batch templates - Templates for processing data in bulk:

Utility templates:

WordCount

The WordCount template is a batch pipeline that reads text from Cloud Storage, tokenizes the text lines into individual words, and performs a frequency count on each of the words. For more information about WordCount, see WordCount Example Pipeline.

Template parameters

Parameter	Description
`inputFile`	The Cloud Storage input file path.
`output`	The Cloud Storage output file path and prefix.

Running the WordCount template

Console

Run from the Google Cloud Console

Go to the Dataflow page in the Cloud Console.

Go to the Dataflow page

Click Create job from template.

Select the WordCount template from the Dataflow template drop-down menu.
Enter a job name in the Job Name field. Your job name must match the regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]{0,38}[a-z0-9])? to be valid.
Enter your parameter values in the provided parameter fields.
Click Run Job.

GCLOUD

Run from the gcloud command-line tool

Note: To use the gcloud command-line tool to run templates, you must have Cloud SDK version 138.0.0 or higher.

When running this template, you'll need the Cloud Storage path to the template:

gs://dataflow-templates/latest/Word_Count

You must replace the following values in this example:

Replace JOB_NAME with a job name of your choice. The job name must match the regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]{0,38}[a-z0-9])? to be valid.
Replace YOUR_BUCKET_NAME with the name of your Cloud Storage bucket.

gcloud dataflow jobs run JOB_NAME \
    --gcs-location gs://dataflow-templates/latest/Word_Count \
    --parameters \
inputFile=gs://dataflow-samples/shakespeare/kinglear.txt,\
output=gs://YOUR_BUCKET_NAME/output/my_output

API

Run from the REST API

When running this template, you'll need the Cloud Storage path to the template:

gs://dataflow-templates/latest/Word_Count

To run this template with a REST API request, send an HTTP POST request with your project ID. This request requires authorization.

You must replace the following values in this example:

Replace YOUR_PROJECT_ID with your project ID.
Replace JOB_NAME with a job name of your choice. The job name must match the regular expression [a-z]([-a-z0-9]{0,38}[a-z0-9])? to be valid.
Replace YOUR_BUCKET_NAME with the name of your Cloud Storage bucket.

POST https://dataflow.googleapis.com/v1b3/projects/YOUR_PROJECT_ID/templates:launch?gcsPath=gs://dataflow-templates/latest/Word_Count
{
    "jobName": "JOB_NAME",
    "parameters": {
       "inputFile" : "gs://dataflow-samples/shakespeare/kinglear.txt",
       "output": "gs://YOUR_BUCKET_NAME/output/my_output"
    },
    "environment": { "zone": "us-central1-f" }
}

Template source code

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/*
 * Copyright (C) 2016 Google Inc.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not
 * use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
 * the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT
 * WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the
 * License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
 * the License.
 */

package com.google.cloud.teleport.templates;


import org.apache.beam.sdk.Pipeline;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.TextIO;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.metrics.Counter;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.metrics.Metrics;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.Description;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptions;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptionsFactory;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.ValueProvider;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.Count;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.DoFn;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.MapElements;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.PTransform;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.ParDo;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.SimpleFunction;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.KV;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.PCollection;

/**
 * An template that counts words in Shakespeare.
 */
public class WordCount {

  static class ExtractWordsFn extends DoFn<String, String> {
    private final Counter emptyLines = Metrics.counter(ExtractWordsFn.class, "emptyLines");

    @ProcessElement
    public void processElement(ProcessContext c) {
      if (c.element().trim().isEmpty()) {
        emptyLines.inc();
      }

      // Split the line into words.
      String[] words = c.element().split("[^a-zA-Z']+");

      // Output each word encountered into the output PCollection.
      for (String word : words) {
        if (!word.isEmpty()) {
          c.output(word);
        }
      }
    }
  }

  /** A SimpleFunction that converts a Word and Count into a printable string. */
  public static class FormatAsTextFn extends SimpleFunction<KV<String, Long>, String> {
    @Override
    public String apply(KV<String, Long> input) {
      return input.getKey() + ": " + input.getValue();
    }
  }

  /**
   * A PTransform that converts a PCollection containing lines of text into a PCollection of
   * formatted word counts.
   */
  public static class CountWords extends PTransform<PCollection<String>,
        PCollection<KV<String, Long>>> {
    @Override
    public PCollection<KV<String, Long>> expand(PCollection<String> lines) {

      // Convert lines of text into individual words.
      PCollection<String> words = lines.apply(
          ParDo.of(new ExtractWordsFn()));

      // Count the number of times each word occurs.
      PCollection<KV<String, Long>> wordCounts =
          words.apply(Count.<String>perElement());

      return wordCounts;
    }
  }

  /**
   * Options supported by {@link com.google.cloud.teleport.templates.WordCount}.
   *
   * <p>Inherits standard configuration options.
   */
  public interface WordCountOptions extends PipelineOptions {
    @Description("Path of the file to read from")
    ValueProvider<String> getInputFile();
    void setInputFile(ValueProvider<String> value);

    @Description("Path of the file to write to")
    ValueProvider<String> getOutput();
    void setOutput(ValueProvider<String> value);
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    WordCountOptions options = PipelineOptionsFactory.fromArgs(args).withValidation()
      .as(WordCountOptions.class);
    Pipeline p = Pipeline.create(options);
    p.apply("ReadLines", TextIO.read().from(options.getInputFile()))
     .apply(new CountWords())
     .apply(MapElements.via(new FormatAsTextFn()))
     .apply("WriteCounts", TextIO.write().to(options.getOutput()));

    p.run();
  }
}

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Last updated December 4, 2019.