Read Selected Fields from a Parquet File
Updated: Aug 28, 2026
package com.northconcepts.datapipeline.examples.parquet;
import static org.apache.parquet.schema.LogicalTypeAnnotation.stringType;
import static org.apache.parquet.schema.PrimitiveType.PrimitiveTypeName.BINARY;
import static org.apache.parquet.schema.PrimitiveType.PrimitiveTypeName.BOOLEAN;
import static org.apache.parquet.schema.PrimitiveType.PrimitiveTypeName.DOUBLE;
import static org.apache.parquet.schema.PrimitiveType.PrimitiveTypeName.INT32;
import java.io.File;
import org.apache.parquet.schema.MessageType;
import org.apache.parquet.schema.Types;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.core.StreamWriter;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.job.Job;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.parquet.ParquetDataReader;
public class ReadSelectedFieldsFromAParquetFile {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Prepare schema with fields to be read from file, ignoring other fields
MessageType schema = new MessageType("input_schema",
Types.optional(INT32).named("id"),
Types.optional(INT32).named("int_col"),
Types.optional(DOUBLE).named("double_col"),
Types.optional(BINARY).as(stringType()).named("date_string_col"),
Types.optional(BOOLEAN).named("bool_col")
);
/*
Exclude the following fields from being read:
optional int32 tinyint_col;
optional int32 smallint_col;
optional int64 bigint_col;
optional float float_col;
optional binary string_col;
optional int96 timestamp_col;
*/
ParquetDataReader reader = new ParquetDataReader(new File("example/data/input/read_parquet_file.parquet"))
.setSchema(schema) // Remove this line to see all fields (and in original arrangement)
;
Job.run(reader, new StreamWriter(System.out));
System.out.println(reader.getSchema());
}
}
