Hi, Did anyone see java.util.ConcurrentModificationException when using broadcast variables? I encountered this exception when wrapping a Kafka producer like this in the spark streaming driver.
Here is what I did. KafkaProducer<String, String> producer = new KafkaProducer<String, String>(properties); final Broadcast<KafkaDataProducer> bCastProducer = streamingContext.sparkContext().broadcast(producer); Then within an closure called by a foreachRDD, I was trying to get the wrapped producer, i.e. KafkaProducer<String, String> p = bCastProducer.value(); after rebuilding and rerunning, I got the stack trace like this Exception in thread "main" com.esotericsoftware.kryo.KryoException: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException Serialization trace: classes (sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader) classloader (java.security.ProtectionDomain) context (java.security.AccessControlContext) acc (org.apache.spark.util.MutableURLClassLoader) contextClassLoader (org.apache.kafka.common.utils.KafkaThread) ioThread (org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer) producer ("my driver") at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.write(FieldSerializer.java:585) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer.write(FieldSerializer.java:213) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeObject(Kryo.java:501) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.write(FieldSerializer.java:564) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer.write(FieldSerializer.java:213) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeClassAndObject(Kryo.java:568) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.DefaultArraySerializers$ObjectArraySerializer.write(DefaultArraySerializers.java:318) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.DefaultArraySerializers$ObjectArraySerializer.write(DefaultArraySerializers.java:293) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeObject(Kryo.java:501) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.write(FieldSerializer.java:564) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer.write(FieldSerializer.java:213) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeObjectOrNull(Kryo.java:549) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.write(FieldSerializer.java:570) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer.write(FieldSerializer.java:213) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeObject(Kryo.java:501) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.write(FieldSerializer.java:564) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer.write(FieldSerializer.java:213) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeObject(Kryo.java:501) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.write(FieldSerializer.java:564) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer.write(FieldSerializer.java:213) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeObject(Kryo.java:501) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.write(FieldSerializer.java:564) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer.write(FieldSerializer.java:213) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeClassAndObject(Kryo.java:568) at org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializationStream.writeObject(KryoSerializer.scala:148) at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast$.blockifyObject(TorrentBroadcast.scala:203) at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast.writeBlocks(TorrentBroadcast.scala:102) at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcast.<init>(TorrentBroadcast.scala:85) at org.apache.spark.broadcast.TorrentBroadcastFactory.newBroadcast(TorrentBroadcastFactory.scala:34) at org.apache.spark.broadcast.BroadcastManager.newBroadcast(BroadcastManager.scala:62) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.broadcast(SparkContext.scala:1289) at org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext.broadcast(JavaSparkContext.scala:648) at "my driver" at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:664) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:169) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:192) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:111) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala) Caused by: java.util.ConcurrentModificationException at java.util.Vector$Itr.checkForComodification(Vector.java:1156) at java.util.Vector$Itr.next(Vector.java:1133) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.CollectionSerializer.write(CollectionSerializer.java:67) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.CollectionSerializer.write(CollectionSerializer.java:18) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.Kryo.writeObject(Kryo.java:501) at com.esotericsoftware.kryo.serializers.FieldSerializer$ObjectField.write(FieldSerializer.java:564) ... 41 more Thanks. -- Regards, Shenghua (Daniel) Wan