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Sean Owen updated SPARK-4819:
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Assignee: Sean Owen (was: Reynold Xin)
I'm going to give this a try. The game plan is roughly to replace Optional<T>
with T, where the value can be null. This is the closest equivalent in the Java
7 JDK. Of course, Java 8 would be nice here too, and would be pleased to see
deciding to require Java 8 for 2.x, but that's a different question.
One catch: It's simple to use {{v.orNull}} on an instance of Scala's
{{Option[V]}} to get the value or null, for use with Java. It's like the mirror
to {{Option(v)}}. However this only works if Scala knows type V is a reference
type. So this means adding ">: Null" bounds to a lot of types in the Java API.
Which isn't a bad idea, in that Java RDDs can only contain objects and not
primitives anyway.
Comments?
> Remove Guava's "Optional" from public API
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> Key: SPARK-4819
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4819
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: Spark Core
> Affects Versions: 1.2.0
> Reporter: Marcelo Vanzin
> Assignee: Sean Owen
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> Filing this mostly so this isn't forgotten. Spark currently exposes Guava
> types in its public API (the {{Optional}} class is used in the Java
> bindings). This makes it hard to properly hide Guava from user applications,
> and makes mixing different Guava versions with Spark a little sketchy (even
> if things should work, since those classes are pretty simple in general).
> Since this changes the public API, it has to be done in a release that allows
> such breakages. But it would be nice to at least have a transition plan for
> deprecating the affected APIs.
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