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[SPARK-17372][SQL][STREAMING] Avoid serialization issues by using Arrays to...

Tathagata Das authored 8 years ago

[SPARK-17372][SQL][STREAMING] Avoid serialization issues by using Arrays to save file names in FileStreamSource

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

When we create a filestream on a directory that has partitioned subdirs (i.e. dir/x=y/), then ListingFileCatalog.allFiles returns the files in the dir as Seq[String] which internally is a Stream[String]. This is because of this [line](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/datasources/PartitioningAwareFileCatalog.scala#L93), where a LinkedHashSet.values.toSeq returns Stream. Then when the [FileStreamSource](https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/streaming/FileStreamSource.scala#L79) filters this Stream[String] to remove the seen files, it creates a new Stream[String], which has a filter function that has a $outer reference to the FileStreamSource (in Scala 2.10). Trying to serialize this Stream[String] causes NotSerializableException. This will happened even if there is just one file in the dir.

Its important to note that this behavior is different in Scala 2.11. There is no $outer reference to FileStreamSource, so it does not throw NotSerializableException. However, with a large sequence of files (tested with 10000 files), it throws StackOverflowError. This is because how Stream class is implemented. Its basically like a linked list, and attempting to serialize a long Stream requires *recursively* going through linked list, thus resulting in StackOverflowError.

In short, across both Scala 2.10 and 2.11, serialization fails when both the following conditions are true.
- file stream defined on a partitioned directory
- directory has 10k+ files

The right solution is to convert the seq to an array before writing to the log. This PR implements this fix in two ways.
- Changing all uses for HDFSMetadataLog to ensure Array is used instead of Seq
- Added a `require` in HDFSMetadataLog such that it is never used with type Seq

## How was this patch tested?

Added unit test that test that ensures the file stream source can handle with 10000 files. This tests fails in both Scala 2.10 and 2.11 with different failures as indicated above.

Author: Tathagata Das <tathagata.das1565@gmail.com>

Closes #14987 from tdas/SPARK-17372.

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Apache Spark

Spark is a fast and general cluster computing system for Big Data. It provides high-level APIs in Scala, Java, Python, and R, and an optimized engine that supports general computation graphs for data analysis. It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and DataFrames, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX for graph processing, and Spark Streaming for stream processing.

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./bin/spark-shell

Try the following command, which should return 1000:

scala> sc.parallelize(1 to 1000).count()

Interactive Python Shell

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./bin/pyspark

And run the following command, which should also return 1000:

>>> sc.parallelize(range(1000)).count()

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./bin/run-example SparkPi

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MASTER=spark://host:7077 ./bin/run-example SparkPi

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./dev/run-tests

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