String filter using Spark UDF - scala

Question

input.csv:
200,300,889,767,9908,7768,9090
300,400,223,4456,3214,6675,333
234,567,890
123,445,667,887
What I want:
Read input file and compare with set "123,200,300" if match found, gives matching data
200,300 (from 1 input line)
300 (from 2 input line)
123 (from 4 input line)
What I wrote:
import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
object sparkApp {
val conf = new SparkConf()
.setMaster("local")
.setAppName("CountingSheep")
val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
def parseLine(invCol: String) : RDD[String] = {
println(s"INPUT, $invCol")
val inv_rdd = sc.parallelize(Seq(invCol.toString))
val bs_meta_rdd = sc.parallelize(Seq("123,200,300"))
return inv_rdd.intersection(bs_meta_rdd)
}
def main(args: Array[String]) {
val filePathName = "hdfs://xxx/tmp/input.csv"
val rawData = sc.textFile(filePathName)
val datad = rawData.map{r => parseLine(r)}
}
}
I get the following exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
Please suggest where I went wrong

Answer 1

Problem is solved. This is very simple.
val pfile = sc.textFile("/FileStore/tables/6mjxi2uz1492576337920/input.csv")
case class pSchema(id: Int, pName: String)
val pDF = pfile.map(_.split("\t")).map(p => pSchema(p(0).toInt,p(1).trim())).toDF()
pDF.select("id","pName").show()
Define UDF
val findP = udf((id: Int,
pName: String
) => {
val ids = Array("123","200","300")
var idsFound : String = ""
for (id <- ids){
if (pName.contains(id)){
idsFound = idsFound + id + ","
}
}
if (idsFound.length() > 0) {
idsFound = idsFound.substring(0,idsFound.length -1)
}
idsFound
})
Use UDF in withCoulmn()
pDF.select("id","pName").withColumn("Found",findP($"id",$"pName")).show()

Answer 2

For simple answer, why we are making it so complex? In this case we don't require UDF.
This is your input data:
200,300,889,767,9908,7768,9090|AAA
300,400,223,4456,3214,6675,333|BBB
234,567,890|CCC
123,445,667,887|DDD
and you have to match it with 123,200,300
val matchSet = "123,200,300".split(",").toSet
val rawrdd = sc.textFile("D:\\input.txt")
rawrdd.map(_.split("|"))
.map(arr => arr(0).split(",").toSet.intersect(matchSet).mkString(",") + "|" + arr(1))
.foreach(println)
Your output:
300,200|AAA
300|BBB
|CCC
123|DDD

Answer 3

What you are trying to do can't be done the way you are doing it.
Spark does not support nested RDDs (see SPARK-5063).
Spark does not support nested RDDs or performing Spark actions inside of transformations; this usually leads to NullPointerExceptions (see SPARK-718 as one example). The confusing NPE is one of the most common sources of Spark questions on StackOverflow:
call of distinct and map together throws NPE in spark library
NullPointerException in Scala Spark, appears to be caused be collection type?
Graphx: I've got NullPointerException inside mapVertices
(those are just a sample of the ones that I've answered personally; there are many others).
I think we can detect these errors by adding logic to RDD to check whether sc is null (e.g. turn sc into a getter function); we can use this to add a better error message.