Writing data to cassandra using spark - scala

Question

I have a spark job written in Scala, in which I am just trying to write one line separated by commas, coming from Kafka producer to Cassandra database. But I couldn't call saveToCassandra.
I saw few examples of wordcount where they are writing map structure to Cassandra table with two columns and it seems working fine. But I have many columns and I found that the data structure needs to parallelized.
Here's is the sample of my code:
object TestPushToCassandra extends SparkStreamingJob {
def validate(ssc: StreamingContext, config: Config): SparkJobValidation = SparkJobValid
def runJob(ssc: StreamingContext, config: Config): Any = {
val bp_conf=BpHooksUtils.getSparkConf()
val brokers=bp_conf.get("bp_kafka_brokers","unknown_default")
val input_topics = config.getString("topics.in").split(",").toSet
val output_topic = config.getString("topic.out")
val kafkaParams = Map[String, String]("metadata.broker.list" -> brokers)
val messages = KafkaUtils.createDirectStream[String, String, StringDecoder, StringDecoder](ssc, kafkaParams, input_topics)
val lines = messages.map(_._2)
val words = lines.flatMap(_.split(","))
val li = words.par
li.saveToCassandra("testspark","table1", SomeColumns("col1","col2","col3"))
li.print()
words.foreachRDD(rdd =>
rdd.foreachPartition(partition =>
partition.foreach{
case x:String=>{
val props = new HashMap[String, Object]()
props.put(ProducerConfig.BOOTSTRAP_SERVERS_CONFIG, brokers)
props.put(ProducerConfig.VALUE_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG,
"org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer")
props.put(ProducerConfig.KEY_SERIALIZER_CLASS_CONFIG,
"org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer")
val outMsg=x+" from spark"
val producer = new KafkaProducer[String,String](props)
val message=new ProducerRecord[String, String](output_topic,null,outMsg)
producer.send(message)
}
}
)
)
ssc.start()
ssc.awaitTermination()
}
}
I think it's the syntax of Scala that I am not getting correct.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You need to change your words DStream into something that the Connector can handle.
Like a Tuple
val words = lines
.map(_.split(","))
.map( wordArr => (wordArr(0), wordArr(1), wordArr(2))
or a Case Class
case class YourRow(col1: String, col2: String, col3: String)
val words = lines
.map(_.split(","))
.map( wordArr => YourRow(wordArr(0), wordArr(1), wordArr(2)))
or a CassandraRow
This is because if you place an Array there all by itself it could be an Array in C* you are trying to insert rather than 3 columns.
https://github.com/datastax/spark-cassandra-connector/blob/master/doc/5_saving.md