John:
Which Spark release are you using ?
As of 1.4.0, RDD has this method:
def isEmpty(): Boolean = withScope {
FYI
On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Evo Eftimov <evo.efti...@isecc.com> wrote:
> Foreachpartition callback is provided with Iterator by the Spark Frameowrk
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> Also check whether this is not some sort of Python Spark API bug – Python
> seems to be the foster child here – Scala and Java are the darlings
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> *From:* John Omernik [mailto:j...@omernik.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, June 5, 2015 4:08 PM
> *To:* user
> *Subject:* Spark Streaming for Each RDD - Exception on Empty
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> Is there pythonic/sparkonic way to test for an empty RDD before using the
> foreachRDD? Basically I am using the Python example
> https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/streaming-programming-guide.html to
> "put records somewhere" When I have data, it works fine, when I don't I
> get an exception. I am not sure about the performance implications of just
> throwing an exception every time there is no data, but can I just test
> before sending it?
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> I did see one post mentioning look for take(1) from the stream to test for
> data, but I am not sure where I put that in this example... Is that in the
> lambda function? or somewhere else? Looking for pointers!
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> Thanks!
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> mydstream.foreachRDD(lambda rdd: rdd.foreachPartition(parseRDD))
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> Using this example code from the link above:
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> *def* sendPartition(iter):
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> connection.send(record)
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> connection.close()
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> dstream.foreachRDD(*lambda* rdd: rdd.foreachPartition(sendPartition))
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