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  • New Features
    • Added an options validation API that lets you check configured COBOL options without loading data into a Spark dataset.
    • Validate read options against input files or check write options against a DataFrame before saving. Options can include copybook content.
    • Fixed-length input validation reports an error when file sizes are not divisible by the record size.

…ions against data files without loading them into a DataFrame.

Also rename `HDFSUtils` to `HadoopFsUtils` and make `DefaultSource.isRecursiveRetrieval` public.
…check option consistency and that file sizes are acceptable.
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The change adds Cobrix.validateOptions for read and write validation. Read validation can check fixed-length file sizes. The change also renames HDFSUtils to HadoopFsUtils and updates its call sites and tests.

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Options Validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validation API and option setup
README.md, spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/Cobrix.scala, spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/builder/*, spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/DefaultSource.scala
Cobrix.validateOptions returns a builder that stores options under lowercase keys. DefaultSource.isRecursiveRetrieval is public on the companion object.
Read and write validation
spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/builder/ValidatorBuilder.scala, spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/CobolRelation.scala, spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/scanners/CobolScanners.scala
Read validation resolves input files, creates a relation, and checks fixed-length file sizes. Write validation parses writer parameters, loads the copybook schema, and combines the DataFrame.
Validation documentation and tests
README.md, spark-cobol/src/test/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/integration/Test1FixedLengthRecordsSpec.scala, spark-cobol/src/test/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/writer/FixedLengthEbcdicWriterSuite.scala
The README shows read and write validation examples. Tests use the validation builder for fixed-length read errors and writer-option checks.

Hadoop Filesystem Utility Rename

Layer / File(s) Summary
Utility rename and call-site updates
spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/utils/HadoopFsUtils.scala, spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/{copybook,index,streaming}/*, spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/utils/SparkUtils.scala, spark-cobol/src/test/scala/za/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/utils/HadoopFsUtilsSpec.scala
The utility object is renamed to HadoopFsUtils. Copybook loading, block-location lookups, block-size lookup, and the utility tests use the new name.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Cobrix
  participant ValidatorBuilder
  participant CobolRelation
  participant CobolScanners
  Cobrix->>ValidatorBuilder: Create validation builder
  ValidatorBuilder->>CobolRelation: Configure relation and validate
  CobolRelation->>CobolScanners: Check fixed-length file sizes
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External Scala consumers may need code changes to upgrade, and read validation can incorrectly accept a directory containing an invalid fixed-length file. Address these risks before merging unless the compatibility break is explicitly accepted.

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JaCoCo code coverage report - 'spark-cobol'

Overall Project 84.07% -0.48% 🍏
Files changed 88.87% 🍏

File Coverage
Cobrix.scala 100% 🍏
IndexBuilder.scala 96.64% 🍏
ValidatorBuilder.scala 95.98% -4.02% 🍏
CobolScanners.scala 93.52% 🍏
SparkUtils.scala 92.21% 🍏
CopybookContentLoader.scala 89.73% 🍏
DefaultSource.scala 83.78% 🍏
CobolRelation.scala 82.4% -4.19% ❌
HadoopFsUtils.scala 78.61% 🍏
SparkCobolBuilder.scala 46.43% -28.57% ❌
CobolStreamer.scala 0% -6.32% ❌

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- Line 48: Update ValidatorBuilder.validate to run
CobolParametersValidator.validateOrThrow and checkSanity on the parsed options
and effective filePaths before constructing the reader. Ensure validateOrThrow
receives the paths passed to validate as its expected path option, so missing
paths are rejected before scanning.

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  • README.md
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  • spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/builder/ValidatorBuilder.scala
  • spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/CobolRelation.scala
  • spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/DefaultSource.scala
  • spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/copybook/CopybookContentLoader.scala
  • spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/index/IndexBuilder.scala
  • spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/scanners/CobolScanners.scala
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  • spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/utils/HadoopFsUtils.scala
  • spark-cobol/src/main/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/utils/SparkUtils.scala
  • spark-cobol/src/test/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/integration/Test1FixedLengthRecordsSpec.scala
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* This object provides utility methods for interacting with Hadoop filesystem internals.
*/
object HDFSUtils {
object HadoopFsUtils {

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the public HDFSUtils name during migration.

External Scala code that imports HDFSUtils will no longer compile after this rename. Keep a deprecated forwarding object or provide another compatibility path while introducing HadoopFsUtils.

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spark-cobol/src/test/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/source/integration/Test1FixedLengthRecordsSpec.scala (1)

102-102: LGTM!

spark-cobol/src/test/scala/za/co/absa/cobrix/spark/cobol/writer/FixedLengthEbcdicWriterSuite.scala (1)

23-23: LGTM!

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833-833: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Fix the typos in the documentation.

Line 833 has "ro writing" instead of "or writing". It also repeats "options to spark-cobol options".

Proposed fix
-You can validate options to `spark-cobol` options without reading ro writing data files. This is useful for quick validation
+You can validate `spark-cobol` options without reading or writing data files. This is useful for quick validation

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- Line 844: Define the input path in the README validation example before use,
then update the validateLoad call to reference that same declared inputDataPath
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Comment thread README.md
Cobrix.validateOptions
.option("copybook_contents", copybook)
.option("some_option", "some_value")
.validateLoad(inpudDataPath)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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sed -n '830,855p' README.md
rg -n 'inpudDataPath|inputDataPath' README.md

Repository: AbsaOSS/cobrix

Length of output: 1013


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set -o pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- README options-validation context ---'
nl -ba README.md | sed -n '760,855p'
printf '%s\n' '--- README path-variable declarations/usages ---'
rg -n -F --glob 'README.md' -- 'DataPath' . || test "$?" -eq 1
rg -n -i --glob 'README.md' -- 'input.*path|path.*input|validateLoad|validateSave' . || test "$?" -eq 1
printf '%s\n' '--- repository occurrences of inpudDataPath ---'
rg -n -F -- 'inpudDataPath' . || test "$?" -eq 1

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Define the input path before validating the read options.

inpudDataPath is not declared in the README example. Renaming only the call to inputDataPath would leave the example with another undefined identifier.

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 // Validation options when reading data
+val inputDataPath = "path/to/input"
 Cobrix.validateOptions
   .option("copybook_contents", copybook)
   .option("some_option", "some_value")
-  .validateLoad(inpudDataPath)
+  .validateLoad(inputDataPath)
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Define the input path in the README validation example before use, then update
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cobolParameters.debugIgnoreFileSize,
cobolParameters.recordLimit)(sqlContext)

// Validating reader requirements

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Check every fixed-length file before validation succeeds.

If a directory contains at least 50 files, the scanner examines only its first 50 for record-size mismatches. validateLoad can therefore succeed when a later file has an invalid size. Make the size check inspect every resolved file, stopping at the first mismatch if needed. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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at line 78:
Update the file-scanning logic used by validateLoad so fixed-length record-size
validation examines every resolved file, rather than stopping after the first
50; it may stop early once it finds a mismatch.

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