Dear all, I have a question about the usage of RDD. I implemented a class called AppDataPoint, it looks like:
case class AppDataPoint(input_y : Double, input_x : Array[Double]) extends Serializable { var y : Double = input_y var x : Array[Double] = input_x ...... } Furthermore, I created the RDD by the following function. def parsePoint(line: String): AppDataPoint = { /* Some related works for parsing */ ...... } Assume the RDD called "points": val lines = sc.textFile(inputPath, numPartition) var points = lines.map(parsePoint _).cache() The question is that, I tried to modify the value of this RDD, the operation is: points.foreach(p=>p.y = another_value) The operation is workable. There doesn't have any warning or error message showed by the system and the results are right. I wonder that if the modification for RDD is a correct and in fact workable design. The usage web said that the RDD is immutable, is there any suggestion? Thanks a lot. Chieh-Yen Lin