unpersist is a method on RDDs. RDDs are abstractions introduced by Spark. An Int is just a Scala Int. You can't call unpersist on Int in Scala, and that doesn't change in Spark.
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Deep Pradhan <pradhandeep1...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is one thing that I am confused about. > Spark has codes that have been implemented in Scala. Now, can we run any > Scala code on the Spark framework? What will be the difference in the > execution of the scala code in normal systems and on Spark? > The reason for my question is the following: > I had a variable > *val temp = <some operations>* > This temp was being created inside the loop, so as to manually throw it > out of the cache, every time the loop ends I was calling > *temp.unpersist()*, this was returning an error saying that *value > unpersist is not a method of Int*, which means that temp is an Int. > Can some one explain to me why I was not able to call *unpersist* on > *temp*? > > Thank You >
