Read the input file name from S3 in AWS Glue into redshift

Question

I am reading multiple files from S3 and writing the output to Redshift DB. Below is my code to read all the files from a S3 location (s3://abc/oms/YFS_CATEGORY_ITEM/)
```
yfs_category_item_df = glueContext.create_dynamic_frame.from_options(
    format_options={},
    connection_type="s3",
    format="parquet",
    connection_options={
        "path": [
            #"s3://" + args['s3_bucket'] + "/" + args['s3_key']
            f"s3://abc/oms/YFS_CATEGORY_ITEM/"
            ],
        "recurse": True,
    },
    transformation_ctx="yfs_category_item_df",
)
```
Below is my code to write the data to Redshift:

```
RedshiftCluster_node3 = glueContext.write_dynamic_frame.from_jdbc_conf(
        frame=yfs_category_item_df,
        catalog_connection="dodsprd_connection",
        connection_options={
            "database": "dodsprod",
            "dbtable": "dw_replatform_stage.rt_category_item",
            "preactions": pre_query,
            "postactions": post_query,
        },
        redshift_tmp_dir=tmp_dir,
        transformation_ctx="upsert_to_redshift",
    )
```
All my work is going on as expected. My new requirement is to capture the input file name (that I am reading from S3) and insert that into my target table as a new column. Can someone please help me to do this?
I am not using any crawler or Glue tables in my entire script. Also i tried using "input_file_name()" option. This does not work in JDBC option and works only if crawler/glue tables are used. Also tried using "format_options" and this is also not supported in JDBC_CONF. Any help please?

Don_D · Answer

Just a small tweak is needed to get the filename:

```
yfs_category_item_df = glueContext.create_dynamic_frame.from_options(
    format_options={"attachFilename": "your_filename_column_name"},
    connection_type="s3",
    format="parquet",
    connection_options={
        "path": [
            #"s3://" + args['s3_bucket'] + "/" + args['s3_key']
            f"s3://abc/oms/YFS_CATEGORY_ITEM/"
            ],
        "recurse": True,
    },
    transformation_ctx="yfs_category_item_df",
)
```
Change the value of attachFilename in format_options to have the column name you desire.

Gonzalo Herreros · Answer

The sink being JDBC (BTW for Redshift it would be better to use the Redshift connector) has no impact on what you are trying to do, you could show() the DF before writing and if the filename is there, it will be written like any other columns.  
You could use the option attachFilename on the source, see: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/dg/aws-glue-programming-etl-format.html#aws-glue-programming-etl-format-shared-reference  or convert to DataFrame, call the function and then back to DynamicFrame (input_file_name() is not an "option", it's a SQL function)

Read the input file name from S3 in AWS Glue into redshift

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