Hi, I am able to read a custom input format in spark. scala> val inputRead = sc.newAPIHadoopFile("hdfs:// 127.0.0.1/user/cloudera/date_dataset/ ",classOf[io.reader.PatternInputFormat],classOf[org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable],classOf[org.apache.hadoop.io.Text])
However, doing a inputRead.count() results in null pointer exception. 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO FileInputFormat: Total input paths to process : 1 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO SparkContext: Starting job: count at <console>:15 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO DAGScheduler: Got job 8 (count at <console>:15) with 1 output partitions (allowLocal=false) 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO DAGScheduler: Final stage: Stage 9 (count at <console>:15) 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO DAGScheduler: Parents of final stage: List() 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO DAGScheduler: Missing parents: List() 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO DAGScheduler: Submitting Stage 9 (NewHadoopRDD[19] at newAPIHadoopFile at <console>:12), which has no missing parents 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO DAGScheduler: Submitting 1 missing tasks from Stage 9 (NewHadoopRDD[19] at newAPIHadoopFile at <console>:12) 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO TaskSchedulerImpl: Adding task set 9.0 with 1 tasks 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO TaskSetManager: Starting task 9.0:0 as TID 8 on executor localhost: localhost (PROCESS_LOCAL) 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO TaskSetManager: Serialized task 9.0:0 as 1297 bytes in 0 ms 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO Executor: Running task ID 8 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO BlockManager: Found block broadcast_5 locally 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO NewHadoopRDD: Input split: hdfs:// 127.0.0.1/user/cloudera/date_dataset/sample.txt:0+759 14/04/08 13:33:39 WARN TaskSetManager: Lost TID 8 (task 9.0:0) 14/04/08 13:33:39 WARN TaskSetManager: Loss was due to java.lang.NullPointerException java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1132) at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:823) at io.reader.PatternRecordReader.initialize(PatternRecordReader.java:42) at org.apache.spark.rdd.NewHadoopRDD$$anon$1.<init>(NewHadoopRDD.scala:96) at org.apache.spark.rdd.NewHadoopRDD.compute(NewHadoopRDD.scala:84) at org.apache.spark.rdd.NewHadoopRDD.compute(NewHadoopRDD.scala:48) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:241) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:232) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:109) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:53) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner$$anonfun$run$1.apply$mcV$sp(Executor.scala:213) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil.runAsUser(SparkHadoopUtil.scala:49) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:178) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) 14/04/08 13:33:39 ERROR TaskSetManager: Task 9.0:0 failed 1 times; aborting job 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO DAGScheduler: Failed to run count at <console>:15 14/04/08 13:33:39 INFO TaskSchedulerImpl: Remove TaskSet 9.0 from pool 14/04/08 13:33:39 ERROR Executor: Exception in task ID 8 java.lang.NullPointerException at java.util.regex.Pattern.<init>(Pattern.java:1132) at java.util.regex.Pattern.compile(Pattern.java:823) at io.reader.PatternRecordReader.initialize(PatternRecordReader.java:42) at org.apache.spark.rdd.NewHadoopRDD$$anon$1.<init>(NewHadoopRDD.scala:96) at org.apache.spark.rdd.NewHadoopRDD.compute(NewHadoopRDD.scala:84) at org.apache.spark.rdd.NewHadoopRDD.compute(NewHadoopRDD.scala:48) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:241) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:232) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:109) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:53) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner$$anonfun$run$1.apply$mcV$sp(Executor.scala:213) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil.runAsUser(SparkHadoopUtil.scala:49) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:178) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted: Task 9.0:0 failed 1 times (most recent failure: Exception failure: java.lang.NullPointerException) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$scheduler$DAGScheduler$$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1028) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$org$apache$spark$scheduler$DAGScheduler$$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1026) at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:59) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:47) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.org $apache$spark$scheduler$DAGScheduler$$abortStage(DAGScheduler.scala:1026) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$processEvent$10.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:619) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$processEvent$10.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:619) at scala.Option.foreach(Option.scala:236) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.processEvent(DAGScheduler.scala:619) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$start$1$$anon$2$$anonfun$receive$1.applyOrElse(DAGScheduler.scala:207) at akka.actor.ActorCell.receiveMessage(ActorCell.scala:498) at akka.actor.ActorCell.invoke(ActorCell.scala:456) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.processMailbox(Mailbox.scala:237) at akka.dispatch.Mailbox.run(Mailbox.scala:219) at akka.dispatch.ForkJoinExecutorConfigurator$AkkaForkJoinTask.exec(AbstractDispatcher.scala:386) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinTask.doExec(ForkJoinTask.java:260) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool$WorkQueue.runTask(ForkJoinPool.java:1339) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinPool.runWorker(ForkJoinPool.java:1979) at scala.concurrent.forkjoin.ForkJoinWorkerThread.run(ForkJoinWorkerThread.java:107) any idea what might be happening here? -anurag -- Twitter: @anuragphadke (https://twitter.com/#!/anuragphadke)