Output text to Cloud Storage

Use the TextIO connector to write text files to a Cloud Storage bucket.

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For detailed documentation that includes this code sample, see the following:

• Write from Dataflow to Cloud Storage

Code sample

Java

To authenticate to Dataflow, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.Pipeline;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.Compression;
import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.TextIO;
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.transforms.Create;

public class BatchWriteStorage {
  public interface Options extends PipelineOptions {
    @Description("The Cloud Storage bucket to write to")
    String getBucketName();

    void setBucketName(String value);
  }

  // Write text data to Cloud Storage
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    final List<String> wordsList = Arrays.asList("1", "2", "3", "4");

    var options = PipelineOptionsFactory.fromArgs(args).withValidation().as(Options.class);
    var pipeline = Pipeline.create(options);
    pipeline
        .apply(Create
            .of(wordsList))
        .apply(TextIO
            .write()
            .to(options.getBucketName())
            .withSuffix(".txt")
            .withCompression(Compression.GZIP)
        );
    pipeline.run().waitUntilFinish();
  }
}

Python

To authenticate to Dataflow, set up Application Default Credentials. For more information, see Set up authentication for a local development environment.

import argparse
from typing import List

import apache_beam as beam
from apache_beam.io.textio import WriteToText
from apache_beam.options.pipeline_options import PipelineOptions

from typing_extensions import Self


def write_to_cloud_storage(argv: List[str] = None) -> None:
    # Parse the pipeline options passed into the application.
    class MyOptions(PipelineOptions):
        @classmethod
        # Define a custom pipeline option that specfies the Cloud Storage bucket.
        def _add_argparse_args(cls: Self, parser: argparse.ArgumentParser) -> None:
            parser.add_argument("--output", required=True)

    wordsList = ["1", "2", "3", "4"]
    options = MyOptions()

    with beam.Pipeline(options=options.view_as(PipelineOptions)) as pipeline:
        (
            pipeline
            | "Create elements" >> beam.Create(wordsList)
            | "Write Files" >> WriteToText(options.output, file_name_suffix=".txt")
        )

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