David Semeria created SPARK-4783: ------------------------------------ Summary: Remove all System.exit calls from sparkcontext Key: SPARK-4783 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4783 Project: Spark Issue Type: Bug Reporter: David Semeria
A common architectural choice for integrating Spark within a larger application is to employ a gateway to handle Spark jobs. The gateway is a server which contains one or more long-running sparkcontexts. A typical server is created with the following pseudo code: ``` var continue = true while (continue){ try { server.run() } catch (e) { continue = log_and_examine_error(e) } ``` The problem is that sparkcontext frequently calls System.exit when it encounters a problem which means the server can only be re-spawned at the process level, which is much more messy than the simple code above. Therefore, I believe it makes sense to replace all System.exit calls in sparkcontext with the throwing of a fatal error. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org