Sharding with fileio.WriteToFiles need to set `max_writers_per_bundle=0` when using InteractiveRunner or DirectRunner?
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Description
### Description:
`fileio.WriteToFiles` ignores the option `shards=3` given to its constructor unless I set `max_writers_per_bundle` to `0`.
It reproduces with InteractiveRunner or DirectRunner, but does not reproduce with DataflowRunner.
### Example:
Suppose I have the following pipeline (with interactive runner):
```
import apache_beam as beam
import apache_beam.io.fileio as fileio
import apache_beam.runners.interactive.interactive_beam
as ib
user_ids = list(map(lambda x: 'user_id' + str(x), range(0, 10000)))
with beam.Pipeline(InteractiveRunner())
as pipeline:
user_list = pipeline | 'create pcollection' >> beam.Create(user_ids)
write_sharded_csv
= user_list | 'write sharded csv files' >> fileio.WriteToFiles(
path='/tmp/data/',
shards=3,
file_naming=fileio.default_file_naming(prefix='userlist', suffix='.csv'),
# max_writers_per_bundle=0,
)
ib.show(write_sharded_csv)
```
This pipeline is implemented to...
- Creates PCollection of strings: 'user_id1', 'user_id2', ... 'user_id10000'
- Writes the user ids to 3 local files with sharding.
The code does not work as intended. It writes whole user ids to only 1 file.
The code DOES work as intended after I added the `max_writers_per_bundle=0` argument to the `WriteToFiles` constructor.
The code also works if I use GCP's DataflowRunner instead of InteractiveRunner.
Is the behavior intentional or bug?
I couldn't understand why `max_writers_per_bundle` is related to the sharding behavior. I couldn't find any documentation about this.
Imported from Jira [BEAM-10596](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-10596). Original Jira may contain additional context.
Reported by: gecko655.
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