Query regarding temporary File type conversion of parquet to text

Question

Hi,

As the direct reading of parquet file from Hue couldn't be possible(not human readable). Is there any way to convert it into Text format temporarily and check the data and rollback to original file format type(Parquet) without creating an intermediate file?

Answer 1

Suppose I have the below parquet file with me in HDFS. It is not possible to convert a Parquet file to Text File temporarily and then roll back to parquet file. But you can upload the parquet file to a dataframe and then view it in a readable format.  Please find the parquet file as below:

Now, you can read the parquet file as below: