Github user srowen commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/8881#discussion_r40509300 --- Diff: streaming/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/streaming/dstream/TransformedDStream.scala --- @@ -38,6 +39,12 @@ class TransformedDStream[U: ClassTag] ( override def compute(validTime: Time): Option[RDD[U]] = { val parentRDDs = parents.map(_.getOrCompute(validTime).orNull).toSeq - Some(transformFunc(parentRDDs, validTime)) + val transformedRDD = transformFunc(parentRDDs, validTime) + if (transformedRDD == null) { --- End diff -- I don't have a strong opinion on this, but this could be done with `require`. Generates a different exception -- `IllegalArgumentException`, but a lower-level generic exception seems pretty reasonable. Can I suggest tightening the text to something like "Transform function may not return null. Return RDD.empty to return no elements as the result of the transformation."
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