GitHub user andrewor14 opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/5685
[SPARK-7120][SPARK-7121][WIP] Closure cleaner nesting + documentation For instance, in SparkContext, I tried to do the following: {code} def scope[T](body: => T): T = body // no-op def myCoolMethod(path: String): RDD[String] = scope { parallelize(1 to 10).map { _ => path } } {code} and I got an exception complaining that SparkContext is not serializable. The issue here is that the inner closure is getting its path from the outer closure (the scope), but the outer closure actually references the SparkContext object itself to get the `parallelize` method. Note, however, that the inner closure doesn't actually need the SparkContext; it just needs a field from the outer closure. If we modify ClosureCleaner to clean the outer closure recursively while using the fields accessed by the inner closure, then we can serialize the inner closure. This is blocking my effort on a separate task. This is WIP because I plan to add tests for this later. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/andrewor14/spark closure-cleaner Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/5685.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #5685 ---- commit 86f78237b7623e4efa06c5feb053e0c304979c73 Author: Andrew Or <and...@databricks.com> Date: 2015-04-24T10:05:58Z Implement transitive cleaning + add missing documentation See in-code comments for more detail on what this means. commit 2390a608ed74a9703d3763d040421dccb51242ec Author: Andrew Or <and...@databricks.com> Date: 2015-04-24T10:08:11Z Feature flag this new behavior ... in case anything breaks, we should be able to resort to old behavior. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. --- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org