Github user aarondav commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/106#discussion_r10414905
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/java/JavaRDD.scala ---
@@ -135,7 +135,11 @@ class JavaRDD[T](val rdd: RDD[T])(implicit val
classTag: ClassTag[T])
def subtract(other: JavaRDD[T], p: Partitioner): JavaRDD[T] =
wrapRDD(rdd.subtract(other, p))
- def generator: String = rdd.generator
+ /**
+ * @deprecated The 'generator' field was removed in Spark 1.0.0. Use
sc.setJobGroup.
+ */
+ @Deprecated
+ def generator: String = ""
--- End diff --
Since we've made these methods no longer do what they were intended to do,
I wonder if it's preferable to simply throw an UnsupportedOperationException if
they're called (with a deprecation message) rather than pretending everything
is hunky-dory.
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