How to collect a single row dataframe and use fields as constants - scala

Question

I'm trying to read a single row from a Hive table and use its fields as constants in the rest of my Spark application.
object IniConstHive extends Serializable {
val techTbl: DataFrame = spark.table("my_db.my_conf_table").orderBy(col("my_date").desc)
val firstrow: Row = techTbl.head
val my_firstfield: Double = firstrow.getAs[java.math.BigDecimal](0).doubleValue
val my_secondfield: Double = firstrow.getAs[java.math.BigDecimal](1).doubleValue
}
Unfortunately, I get this exception when I call IniConstHive.my_firstfield:
Caused by: java.util.NoSuchElementException: None.get
at scala.None$.get(Option.scala:347)
at scala.None$.get(Option.scala:345)
at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockInfoManager.releaseAllLocksForTask(BlockInfoManager.scala:343)
at org.apache.spark.storage.BlockManager.releaseAllLocksForTask(BlockManager.scala:676)
at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:329)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
Is this the right approach to do this? Is there a more efficient way to acheive the result?

Answer 1

It turned out the problem was not in the IniConstHive object but the place where I called it. In fact, I was trying to call IniConstHive.my_firstfield inside a custom UDAF, which runs inside executors. For this reason my application tried to instantiate multiple SparkContext outside the driver.
I solved by calling IniConstHive.my_firstfield in the driver and then passing the result as a parameter in the UDAF constructor.