Also, in general, you can workaround shortcomings in the Java API by converting to a Scala RDD (using JavaRDD's rdd() method). The API tends to be much clunkier since you have to jump through some hoops to talk to a Scala API in Java, though. In this case, JavaRDD's mapPartition() method will likely be the cleanest solution as Patrick said.
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Patrick Wendell <pwend...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can you just call mapPartitions and ignore the result? > > - Patrick > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Yadid Ayzenberg <ya...@media.mit.edu> > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > According to the API, foreachPartition() is not yet implemented in Java. > > Are there any workarounds to get the same functionality ? > > I have a non serializable DB connection and instantiating it is pretty > > expensive, so I prefer to do it on a per partition basis. > > > > thanks, > > Yadid > > >
