Code working in Spark-Shell not in eclipse - scala

Question

I have a small Scala code which works properly on Spark-Shell but not in Eclipse with Scala plugin. I can access hdfs using plugin tried writing another file and it worked..
FirstSpark.scala
package bigdata.spark
import org.apache.spark.SparkConf
import java. io. _
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext._
object FirstSpark {
def main(args: Array[String])={
val conf = new SparkConf().setMaster("local").setAppName("FirstSparkProgram")
val sparkcontext = new SparkContext(conf)
val textFile =sparkcontext.textFile("hdfs://pranay:8020/spark/linkage")
val m = new Methods()
val q =textFile.filter(x => !m.isHeader(x)).map(x=> m.parse(x))
q.saveAsTextFile("hdfs://pranay:8020/output") }
}
Methods.scala
package bigdata.spark
import java.util.function.ToDoubleFunction
class Methods {
def isHeader(s:String):Boolean={
s.contains("id_1")
}
def parse(line:String) ={
val pieces = line.split(',')
val id1=pieces(0).toInt
val id2=pieces(1).toInt
val matches=pieces(11).toBoolean
val mapArray=pieces.slice(2, 11).map(toDouble)
MatchData(id1,id2,mapArray,matches)
}
def toDouble(s: String) = {
if ("?".equals(s)) Double.NaN else s.toDouble
}
}
case class MatchData(id1: Int, id2: Int,
scores: Array[Double], matched: Boolean)
Error Message:
Exception in thread "main" org.apache.spark.SparkException: Task not serializable
at org.apache.spark.util.ClosureCleaner$.ensureSerializable(ClosureCleaner.scala:304)
at org.apache.spark.util.ClosureCleaner$.org$apache$spark$util$ClosureCleaner$$clean(ClosureCleaner.scala:294)
at org.apache.spark.util.ClosureCleaner$.clean(ClosureCleaner.scala:122)
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.clean(SparkContext.scala:2032)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$filter$1.apply(RDD.scala:335)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$filter$1.apply(RDD.scala:334)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:147)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:108)
at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.withScope(RDD.scala:310)
Can anyone please help me with this

Answer 1

Try changing class Methods { .. } to object Methods { .. }.
I think the problem is at val q =textFile.filter(x => !m.isHeader(x)).map(x=> m.parse(x)). When Spark sees the filter and map functions it tries to serialize the functions passed to them (x => !m.isHeader(x) and x=> m.parse(x)) so that it can dispatch the work of executing them to all of the executors (this is the Task referred to). However, to do this, it needs to serialize m, since this object is referenced inside the function (it is in the closure of the two anonymous methods) - but it cannot do this since Methods is not serializable. You could add extends Serializable to the Methods class, but in this case an object is more appropriate (and is already Serializable).