Wild card character behavior during read stream .meta files?

I am working on real time streaming. When I tried to read all json files which will ends with .json readstream also reads files ending with .json.meta. How can get rid of .meta files.

In the storage account I have same files one is ending with .json and another one is ending with .json.meta

I reproduced your code, and i got the files only having extension .json as below.

Below are files I am having.

So, try restarting your cluster and try.

If you still get this.json.meta files, filter out as below.

filtered_streaming_df = dfProduc.filter(dfProduc["FileName"].like("%.json"))

First, I read all files as below, since i am getting correct json files.

Then I filtered them.

Output: