For the record, the solution I was suggesting was about like this:
inputRDD.flatMap { input =>
val tokens = input.split(',')
val id = tokens(0)
val keyValuePairs = tokens.tail.grouped(2)
val keys = keyValuePairs.map(_(0))
keys.map(key => (id, key))
}
This is much more efficient.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Sean Owen <so...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> From the clarification below, the problem is that you are calling
> flatMapValues, which is only available on an RDD of key-value tuples.
> Your map function returns a tuple in one case but a String in the
> other, so your RDD is a bunch of Any, which is not at all what you
> want. You need to return a tuple in both cases, which is what Kapil
> pointed out.
>
> However it's still not quite what you want. Your input is basically
> [key value1 value2 value3] so you want to flatMap that to (key,value1)
> (key,value2) (key,value3). flatMapValues does not come into play.
>
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Sanjay Subramanian
> <sanjaysubraman...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> My understanding is as follows
>>
>> STEP 1 (This would create a pair RDD)
>> =======
>>
>> reacRdd.map(line => line.split(',')).map(fields => {
>> if (fields.length >= 11 && !fields(0).contains("VAERS_ID")) {
>>
>> (fields(0),(fields(1)+"\t"+fields(3)+"\t"+fields(5)+"\t"+fields(7)+"\t"+fields(9)))
>> }
>> else {
>> ""
>> }
>> })
>>
>> STEP 2
>> =======
>> Since previous step created a pair RDD, I thought flatMapValues method will
>> be applicable.
>> But the code does not even compile saying that flatMapValues is not
>> applicable to RDD :-(
>>
>>
>> reacRdd.map(line => line.split(',')).map(fields => {
>> if (fields.length >= 11 && !fields(0).contains("VAERS_ID")) {
>>
>> (fields(0),(fields(1)+"\t"+fields(3)+"\t"+fields(5)+"\t"+fields(7)+"\t"+fields(9)))
>> }
>> else {
>> ""
>> }
>> }).flatMapValues(skus =>
>> skus.split('\t')).saveAsTextFile("/data/vaers/msfx/reac/" + outFile)
>>
>>
>> SUMMARY
>> =======
>> when a dataset looks like the following
>>
>> 1,red,blue,green
>> 2,yellow,violet,pink
>>
>> I want to output the following and I am asking how do I do that ? Perhaps my
>> code is 100% wrong. Please correct me and educate me :-)
>>
>> 1,red
>> 1,blue
>> 1,green
>> 2,yellow
>> 2,violet
>> 2,pink
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