Is there any way (in Java) to make a JavaRDD from an iterable

[Steve Lewis]

   The only way I find is to turn it into a list - in effect holding
everything in memory (see code below). Surely Spark has a better way.

Also what about unterminated iterables like a Fibonacci series - (useful
only if limited in some other way )


/**
     * make an RDD from an iterable
     * @param inp input iterator
     * @param ctx  context
     * @param <T> type
     * @return  rdd from inerator as a list
     */
    public static  @Nonnull <T>   JavaRDD<T> fromIterable(@Nonnull final
Iterable<T> inp,@Nonnull final  JavaSparkContext ctx) {
        List<T> holder = new ArrayList<T>();
        for (T k : inp) {
            holder.add(k);
        }
        return ctx.parallelize(holder);
    }