Get 2 different data from 1 kafka topic into 2 dataframes

Question

I have a homework like this:

1. Use python to read json files in 2 folders song_data and log_data.
2. Use Python Kafka to publish a mixture of both song_data and log_data file types into a Kafka topic.
3. Use Pyspark to consume data from the above Kafka topic.
4. Use Stream processing to consume messages from song_data and create 2 dataframes, songs and artitst. and from log_data generate dataframe as users, time.
5. Create songplays from dataframes of dimension tables.

I have a problems with read different file from 1 topic, 2 folder containt json file but 1 is song data and 1 is log. How can I get their own data from just 1 topics ?

Answer 1

Unclear why you cannot just use two topics, one for each file. Especially if they don't have matching schemas, which will be important for SparkSQL.

How can I get their own data from just 1 topics ?

It begins at step 2.

Write the data to your single topic in a format like so (content used for example purposes only)

{"type": "song", "content": "..."}

or

{"type": "log", "content": "..."}

Then, in SparkSQL, you can do something like this

df = spark.readStream.format("kafka")... # TODO: apply a schema to the data to get a "type" column
song_data = df.where(df("type") == "song").select("content")
log_data = df.where(df("type") == "log").select("content")

You could also do the same filtering in Python-Kafka and not need dataframes or a Spark environment.