hi mina, can you paste your new code here pleasel i meet this issue too but do not get Ankur's idea.
thanks Robin ---Original--- From: "Mina Aslani"<aslanim...@gmail.com> Date: 2017/3/7 05:32:10 To: "Ankur Srivastava"<ankur.srivast...@gmail.com>; Cc: "user@spark.apache.org"<user@spark.apache.org>; Subject: Re: org.apache.spark.SparkException: Task not serializable Thank you Ankur for the quick response, really appreciate it! Making the class serializable resolved the exception! Best regards,Mina On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Ankur Srivastava <ankur.srivast...@gmail.com> wrote: The fix for this make your class Serializable. The reason being the closures you have defined in the class need to be serialized and copied over to all executor nodes. Hope this helps. Thanks Ankur On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:06 PM, Mina Aslani <aslanim...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi,I am trying to start with spark and get number of lines of a text file in my mac, however I get org.apache.spark.SparkException: Task not serializable error on JavaRDD<String> logData = javaCtx.textFile(file);Please see below for the sample of code and the stackTrace.Any idea why this error is thrown?Best regards,MinaSystem.out.println("Creating Spark Configuration"); SparkConf javaConf = new SparkConf(); javaConf.setAppName("My First Spark Java Application"); javaConf.setMaster("PATH to my spark"); System.out.println("Creating Spark Context"); JavaSparkContext javaCtx = new JavaSparkContext(javaConf); System.out.println("Loading the Dataset and will further process it"); String file = "file:///file.txt"; JavaRDD<String> logData = javaCtx.textFile(file); long numLines = logData.filter(new Function<String, Boolean>() { public Boolean call(String s) { return true; } }).count(); System.out.println("Number of Lines in the Dataset "+numLines); javaCtx.close(); Exception in thread "main" org.apache.spark.SparkException: Task not serializable at org.apache.spark.util.ClosureCleaner$.ensureSerializable(ClosureCleaner.scala:298) at org.apache.spark.util.ClosureCleaner$.org$apache$spark$util$ClosureCleaner$$clean(ClosureCleaner.scala:288) at org.apache.spark.util.ClosureCleaner$.clean(ClosureCleaner.scala:108) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.clean(SparkContext.scala:2094) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$filter$1.apply(RDD.scala:387) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$filter$1.apply(RDD.scala:386) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:151) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:112) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.withScope(RDD.scala:362) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.filter(RDD.scala:386) at org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaRDD.filter(JavaRDD.scala:78)