Github user kayousterhout commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1309#discussion_r14695401
--- Diff: core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/Accumulators.scala ---
@@ -51,6 +51,13 @@ class Accumulable[R, T] (
Accumulators.register(this, true)
+ /** A name for this accumulator / accumulable for display in Spark's UI.
+ * Note that names must be unique within a SparkContext. */
+ def name: String = s"accumulator_$id"
+
+ /** Whether to display this accumulator in the web UI. */
+ def display: Boolean = true
--- End diff --
This is probably too annoying (or a good starter task?) but it might be
nice if you could decide on-demand, in the UI, which accumulators you want to
show.
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