Avro Record is not supported by pickler, you need to create a custom pickler for it. But I don't think it worth to do that. Actually you can use package spark-avro to load avro data and then convert it to RDD if necessary.
https://github.com/databricks/spark-avro On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 10:38 PM, Anoop Shiralige <anoop.shiral...@gmail.com > wrote: > Hi All, > > I am working with Spark 1.6.0 and pySpark shell specifically. I have an > JavaRDD[org.apache.avro.GenericRecord] which I have converted to pythonRDD > in the following way. > > javaRDD = sc._jvm.java.package.loadJson("path to data", sc._jsc) > javaPython = sc._jvm.SerDe.javaToPython(javaRDD) > from pyspark.rdd import RDD > pythonRDD=RDD(javaPython,sc) > > pythonRDD.first() > > However everytime I am trying to call collect() or first() method on > pythonRDD I am getting the following error : > > 16/02/11 06:19:19 ERROR python.PythonRunner: Python worker exited > unexpectedly (crashed) > org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonException: Traceback (most recent call > last): > File > > "/disk2/spark6/spark-1.6.0-bin-hadoop2.4/python/lib/pyspark.zip/pyspark/worker.py", > line 98, in main > command = pickleSer._read_with_length(infile) > File > > "/disk2/spark6/spark-1.6.0-bin-hadoop2.4/python/lib/pyspark.zip/pyspark/serializers.py", > line 156, in _read_with_length > length = read_int(stream) > File > > "/disk2/spark6/spark-1.6.0-bin-hadoop2.4/python/lib/pyspark.zip/pyspark/serializers.py", > line 545, in read_int > raise EOFError > EOFError > > at > org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRunner$$anon$1.read(PythonRDD.scala:166) > at > > org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRunner$$anon$1.<init>(PythonRDD.scala:207) > at > org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRunner.compute(PythonRDD.scala:125) > at > org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRDD.compute(PythonRDD.scala:70) > at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.computeOrReadCheckpoint(RDD.scala:306) > at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.iterator(RDD.scala:270) > at > org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:66) > at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:89) > at > org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:213) > at > > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) > at > > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) > Caused by: net.razorvine.pickle.PickleException: couldn't pickle object of > type class org.apache.avro.generic.GenericData$Record > at net.razorvine.pickle.Pickler.save(Pickler.java:142) > at > net.razorvine.pickle.Pickler.put_arrayOfObjects(Pickler.java:493) > at net.razorvine.pickle.Pickler.dispatch(Pickler.java:205) > at net.razorvine.pickle.Pickler.save(Pickler.java:137) > at net.razorvine.pickle.Pickler.dump(Pickler.java:107) > at net.razorvine.pickle.Pickler.dumps(Pickler.java:92) > at > > org.apache.spark.api.python.SerDeUtil$AutoBatchedPickler.next(SerDeUtil.scala:121) > at > > org.apache.spark.api.python.SerDeUtil$AutoBatchedPickler.next(SerDeUtil.scala:110) > at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727) > at > > org.apache.spark.api.python.SerDeUtil$AutoBatchedPickler.foreach(SerDeUtil.scala:110) > at > > org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRDD$.writeIteratorToStream(PythonRDD.scala:452) > at > > org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRunner$WriterThread$$anonfun$run$3.apply(PythonRDD.scala:280) > at > org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.logUncaughtExceptions(Utils.scala:1741) > at > > org.apache.spark.api.python.PythonRunner$WriterThread.run(PythonRDD.scala:239) > > Thanks for your time, > AnoopShiralige > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/PySpark-couldn-t-pickle-object-of-type-class-T-tp26204.html > Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org > > -- Best Regards Jeff Zhang