Great - that's even easier. Maybe we could have a simple example in the doc.
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Sandy Ryza <sandy.r...@cloudera.com> wrote:
> Regarding Patrick's question, you can just do "new Configuration(oldConf)"
> to get a cloned Configuration object and add any new properties to it.
>
> -Sandy
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Imran Rashid <iras...@cloudera.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Nick,
>>
>> I don't remember the exact details of these scenarios, but I think the user
>> wanted a lot more control over how the files got grouped into partitions,
>> to group the files together by some arbitrary function. I didn't think
>> that was possible w/ CombineFileInputFormat, but maybe there is a way?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Nick Pentreath <nick.pentre...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Imran, on your point to read multiple files together in a partition, is
>> it
>> > not simpler to use the approach of copy Hadoop conf and set per-RDD
>> > settings for min split to control the input size per partition, together
>> > with something like CombineFileInputFormat?
>> >
>> > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Imran Rashid <iras...@cloudera.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > I think this would be a great addition, I totally agree that you need
>> to
>> > be
>> > > able to set these at a finer context than just the SparkContext.
>> > >
>> > > Just to play devil's advocate, though -- the alternative is for you
>> just
>> > > subclass HadoopRDD yourself, or make a totally new RDD, and then you
>> > could
>> > > expose whatever you need. Why is this solution better? IMO the
>> criteria
>> > > are:
>> > > (a) common operations
>> > > (b) error-prone / difficult to implement
>> > > (c) non-obvious, but important for performance
>> > >
>> > > I think this case fits (a) & (c), so I think its still worthwhile. But
>> > its
>> > > also worth asking whether or not its too difficult for a user to extend
>> > > HadoopRDD right now. There have been several cases in the past week
>> > where
>> > > we've suggested that a user should read from hdfs themselves (eg., to
>> > read
>> > > multiple files together in one partition) -- with*out* reusing the code
>> > in
>> > > HadoopRDD, though they would lose things like the metric tracking &
>> > > preferred locations you get from HadoopRDD. Does HadoopRDD need to
>> some
>> > > refactoring to make that easier to do? Or do we just need a good
>> > example?
>> > >
>> > > Imran
>> > >
>> > > (sorry for hijacking your thread, Koert)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 3:52 PM, Koert Kuipers <ko...@tresata.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > > see email below. reynold suggested i send it to dev instead of user
>> > > >
>> > > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> > > > From: Koert Kuipers <ko...@tresata.com>
>> > > > Date: Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 4:36 PM
>> > > > Subject: hadoop input/output format advanced control
>> > > > To: "u...@spark.apache.org" <u...@spark.apache.org>
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > > > currently its pretty hard to control the Hadoop Input/Output formats
>> > used
>> > > > in Spark. The conventions seems to be to add extra parameters to all
>> > > > methods and then somewhere deep inside the code (for example in
>> > > > PairRDDFunctions.saveAsHadoopFile) all these parameters get
>> translated
>> > > into
>> > > > settings on the Hadoop Configuration object.
>> > > >
>> > > > for example for compression i see "codec: Option[Class[_ <:
>> > > > CompressionCodec]] = None" added to a bunch of methods.
>> > > >
>> > > > how scalable is this solution really?
>> > > >
>> > > > for example i need to read from a hadoop dataset and i dont want the
>> > > input
>> > > > (part) files to get split up. the way to do this is to set
>> > > > "mapred.min.split.size". now i dont want to set this at the level of
>> > the
>> > > > SparkContext (which can be done), since i dont want it to apply to
>> > input
>> > > > formats in general. i want it to apply to just this one specific
>> input
>> > > > dataset i need to read. which leaves me with no options currently. i
>> > > could
>> > > > go add yet another input parameter to all the methods
>> > > > (SparkContext.textFile, SparkContext.hadoopFile,
>> > SparkContext.objectFile,
>> > > > etc.). but that seems ineffective.
>> > > >
>> > > > why can we not expose a Map[String, String] or some other generic way
>> > to
>> > > > manipulate settings for hadoop input/output formats? it would require
>> > > > adding one more parameter to all methods to deal with hadoop
>> > input/output
>> > > > formats, but after that its done. one parameter to rule them all....
>> > > >
>> > > > then i could do:
>> > > > val x = sc.textFile("/some/path", formatSettings =
>> > > > Map("mapred.min.split.size" -> "12345"))
>> > > >
>> > > > or
>> > > > rdd.saveAsTextFile("/some/path, formatSettings =
>> > > > Map(mapred.output.compress" -> "true",
>> > "mapred.output.compression.codec"
>> > > ->
>> > > > "somecodec"))
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
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