I am writing a standalone Spark program that gets its data from Cassandra. I followed the examples and created the RDD via the newAPIHadoopRDD() and the ColumnFamilyInputFormat class. The RDD is created, but I get a NotSerializableException when I call the RDD's .groupByKey() method:
public static void main(String[] args) {
    SparkConf sparkConf = new SparkConf();
    sparkConf.setMaster("local").setAppName("Test");
    JavaSparkContext ctx = new JavaSparkContext(sparkConf);
    Job job = new Job();
    Configuration jobConf = job.getConfiguration();
    job.setInputFormatClass(ColumnFamilyInputFormat.class);
    ConfigHelper.setInputInitialAddress(jobConf, host);
    ConfigHelper.setInputRpcPort(jobConf, port);
    ConfigHelper.setOutputInitialAddress(jobConf, host);
    ConfigHelper.setOutputRpcPort(jobConf, port);
    ConfigHelper.setInputColumnFamily(jobConf, keySpace, columnFamily, true);
    ConfigHelper.setInputPartitioner(jobConf,"Murmur3Partitioner");
    ConfigHelper.setOutputPartitioner(jobConf,"Murmur3Partitioner");
    SlicePredicate predicate = new SlicePredicate();
    SliceRange sliceRange = new SliceRange();
    sliceRange.setFinish(new byte[0]);
    sliceRange.setStart(new byte[0]);
    predicate.setSlice_range(sliceRange);
    ConfigHelper.setInputSlicePredicate(jobConf, predicate);
    JavaPairRDD<ByteBuffer, SortedMap<ByteBuffer, IColumn>> rdd =
    spark.newAPIHadoopRDD(jobConf,
    ColumnFamilyInputFormat.class.asSubclass(org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.InputFormat.class),
    ByteBuffer.class, SortedMap.class);
    JavaPairRDD<ByteBuffer, Iterable<SortedMap<ByteBuffer, IColumn>>> groupRdd = rdd.groupByKey();
    System.out.println(groupRdd.count());
}
The exception:
java.io.NotSerializableException: java.nio.HeapByteBuffer at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1164) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.defaultWriteFields(ObjectOutputStream.java:1518) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeSerialData(ObjectOutputStream.java:1483) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeOrdinaryObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:1400) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject0(ObjectOutputStream.java:1158) at java.io.ObjectOutputStream.writeObject(ObjectOutputStream.java:330) at org.apache.spark.serializer.JavaSerializationStream.writeObject(JavaSerializer.scala:42) at org.apache.spark.storage.DiskBlockObjectWriter.write(BlockObjectWriter.scala:179) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask$$anonfun$runTask$1.apply(ShuffleMapTask.scala:161) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask$$anonfun$runTask$1.apply(ShuffleMapTask.scala:158) at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727) at org.apache.spark.InterruptibleIterator.foreach(InterruptibleIterator.scala:28) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:158) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ShuffleMapTask.runTask(ShuffleMapTask.scala:99) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:51) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:187) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
What I am trying to do is to merge all row key columns into a single entry. I also get the same exception when I try to use the reduceByKey() method like so:
JavaPairRDD<ByteBuffer, SortedMap<ByteBuffer, IColumn>> reducedRdd = rdd.reduceByKey(
    new Function2<SortedMap<ByteBuffer, IColumn>, SortedMap<ByteBuffer, IColumn>, sortedMap<ByteBuffer, IColumn>>() {
        public SortedMap<ByteBuffer, IColumn> call(SortedMap<ByteBuffer, IColumn> arg0,
            SortedMap<ByteBuffer, IColumn> arg1) throws Exception {
            SortedMap<ByteBuffer, IColumn> sortedMap = new TreeMap<ByteBuffer, IColumn>(arg0.comparator());
            sortedMap.putAll(arg0);
            sortedMap.putAll(arg1);
            return sortedMap;
        }
    }
);
I am using:
- spark-1.0.0-bin-hadoop1
- Cassandra 1.2.12
- Java 1.6
Does anyone know what the problem is? What is it there that fails the serialization?
Thanks, 
Shai
 
     
     
    