Hi,

I still do not understand why people do not use data frames.

It makes you smile, take a sip of fine coffee, and feel good about life and
its all courtesy@SPARK. :)

Regards,
Gourav Sengupta

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:18 PM, Ryan <ryan.hd....@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it creates a new connection on each worker, whenever the Processor
> references Resource, it got initialized.
> There's no need for the driver connect to the db in this case.
>
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 5:52 PM, salvador <sot.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am writing a spark job from which at some point I want to send some
>> metrics to InfluxDB. Here is some sample code of how I am doing it at the
>> moment.
>>
>> I have a Resources object class which contains all the details for the db
>> connection:
>>
>> object Resources { def forceInit: () => Unit = () => ()
>>   val influxHost: String = Config.influxHost.getOrElse("localhost")
>>   val influxUdpPort: Int = Config.influxUdpPort.getOrElse(30089)
>>
>>   val influxDB = new MetricsClient(influxHost, influxUdpPort, "spark")
>>
>> }
>>
>> This is how my code on the driver looks like:
>>
>> object ProcessStuff extends App {
>>   val spark = SparkSession .builder() .config(sparkConfig) .getOrCreate()
>>   val df = spark .read .parquet(Config.input)
>>
>>   Resources.forceInit
>>
>>   val annotatedSentences = df.rdd
>>     .map {
>>       case (Row(a: String, b: String)) => Processor.process(a,b)
>>     }
>>     .cache()
>> }
>>
>> I am sending all the metrics I want from the process() method which uses
>> the
>> client I initialised on the driver code. Currently this works and I am
>> able
>> to send millions of data point. I was just wandering how it works
>> internally. Does it share the db connection or creates a new connection
>> every time?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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