Spark Read content of the file as is

 json file

{
  "sharedObjectName": "sharedObjectName",
  "writeInProgress":false,
  "tableName":"item",
  "lastSyncTimeInEpoch":1619783310,
  "latestLocation":"latestLocation/latestLocation/latestLocation",
  "oneStepLagLocation":"oneStepLagLocation/oneStepLagLocation/oneStepLagLocation"
}

Spark Code to read the file

@throws[ConfigException]
def readJSONFileAsIs( location: String)(sparkSession:SparkSession): String ={
  logInfo(s"Read the file contents as is from the location $location")
  try {
    val textFileDataFrame : Dataset[String] = sparkSession.read.textFile(location)
    val builder : StringBuilder = new StringBuilder()
    textFileDataFrame.collect().foreach(line=>{
      builder.append(line)
    })
    val fileContents : String = builder.toString()
    logInfo(s"Content of the file $fileContents")
    fileContents

  }catch {
    case exception: Exception => logError(s"Error in reading the file from the location $location",exception)
      throw  ConfigException(s"Error in reading the file from the location $location")
  }

}