Hi Spark Community, I am trying to dynamically interpret code given as a String in Spark, just like calling the eval in Perl language. However, I got problem when running the program. Really appreciate for your help.
**Requirement:** The requirement is to make the spark processing chain configurable. For example, customer could set the processing steps in configuration file as below. Steps: 1) textFile("files///<file_full_path>") 2) flatMap(line => line.split(" ")) 3) map(word => (word, 1)) 4) reduceByKey(_ + _) 5) foreach(println) All above steps are defined in a configuration file. Then, the spark driver will load the configuration file and make the processing steps as a string, such as: val processFlow = """ sc.textFile("file:///input.txt").flatMap(line => line.split(" ")).map(word => (word, 1)).reduceByKey(_ + _).foreach(println) """ Then, Spark will execute the piece of code defined in above variable processFlow. **Here is my Spark source code:** It is from word count sample, I just make the RDD methods invoked by interpreter as a string. import org.apache.spark.SparkConf import org.apache.spark.SparkContext import scala.collection.mutable.{Map, ArraySeq} import scala.tools.nsc.GenericRunnerSettings import scala.tools.nsc.interpreter.IMain class TestMain { def exec(): Unit = { val out = System.out val flusher = new java.io.PrintWriter(out) val interpreter = { val settings = new GenericRunnerSettings( println _ ) settings.usejavacp.value = true new IMain(settings, flusher) } val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("TestMain") val sc = new SparkContext(conf) val methodChain = """ val textFile = sc.textFile("file:///input.txt") textFile.flatMap(line => line.split(" ")).map(word => (word, 1)).reduceByKey(_ + _).foreach(println) """ interpreter.bind("sc", sc); val resultFlag = interpreter.interpret(methodChain) } } object TestMain { def main(args: Array[String]) { val testMain = new TestMain() testMain.exec() System.exit(0) } } **Problem:** However, I got an error when running above Spark code (master=local), logs as below. sc: org.apache.spark.SparkContext = org.apache.spark.SparkContext@7d87addd org.apache.spark.SparkException: Job aborted due to stage failure: Task 0 in stage 0.0 failed 1 times, most recent failure: Lost task 0.0 in stage 0.0 (TID 0, localhost): java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: $anonfun$1 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:270) at org.apache.spark.serializer.JavaDeserializationStream$$anon$1.resolveClass(JavaSerializer.scala:68) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1612) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1517) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1771) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:370) at org.apache.spark.serializer.JavaDeserializationStream.readObject(JavaSerializer.scala:76) at org.apache.spark.serializer.JavaSerializerInstance.deserialize(JavaSerializer.scala:115) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:61) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:89) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:214) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Driver stacktrace: at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.org$apache$spark$scheduler$DAGScheduler$$failJobAndIndependentStages(DAGScheduler.scala:1431) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1419) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$abortStage$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:1418) at scala.collection.mutable.ResizableArray$class.foreach(ResizableArray.scala:59) at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.foreach(ArrayBuffer.scala:47) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.abortStage(DAGScheduler.scala:1418) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:799) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler$$anonfun$handleTaskSetFailed$1.apply(DAGScheduler.scala:799) at scala.Option.foreach(Option.scala:236) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.handleTaskSetFailed(DAGScheduler.scala:799) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.doOnReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1640) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1599) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGSchedulerEventProcessLoop.onReceive(DAGScheduler.scala:1588) at org.apache.spark.util.EventLoop$$anon$1.run(EventLoop.scala:48) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.DAGScheduler.runJob(DAGScheduler.scala:620) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1843) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1856) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1869) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.runJob(SparkContext.scala:1940) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD$$anonfun$collect$1.apply(RDD.scala:927) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:150) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDDOperationScope$.withScope(RDDOperationScope.scala:111) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.withScope(RDD.scala:316) at org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD.collect(RDD.scala:926) at .<init>(<console>:12) at .<clinit>(<console>) at .<init>(<console>:7) at .<clinit>(<console>) at $print(<console>) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) at scala.tools.nsc.interpreter.IMain$ReadEvalPrint.call(IMain.scala:734) at scala.tools.nsc.interpreter.IMain$Request.loadAndRun(IMain.scala:983) at scala.tools.nsc.interpreter.IMain.loadAndRunReq$1(IMain.scala:573) at scala.tools.nsc.interpreter.IMain.interpret(IMain.scala:604) at scala.tools.nsc.interpreter.IMain.interpret(IMain.scala:568) at com.tr.ecp.test.TestMain.exec(TestMain.scala:44) at com.tr.ecp.test.TestMain$.main(TestMain.scala:57) at com.tr.ecp.test.TestMain.main(TestMain.scala) 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$$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:731) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:181) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:206) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:121) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: $anonfun$1 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366) at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:355) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:354) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:270) at org.apache.spark.serializer.JavaDeserializationStream$$anon$1.resolveClass(JavaSerializer.scala:68) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readNonProxyDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1612) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readClassDesc(ObjectInputStream.java:1517) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1771) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.defaultReadFields(ObjectInputStream.java:1990) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readSerialData(ObjectInputStream.java:1915) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readOrdinaryObject(ObjectInputStream.java:1798) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject0(ObjectInputStream.java:1350) at java.io.ObjectInputStream.readObject(ObjectInputStream.java:370) at org.apache.spark.serializer.JavaDeserializationStream.readObject(JavaSerializer.scala:76) at org.apache.spark.serializer.JavaSerializerInstance.deserialize(JavaSerializer.scala:115) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:61) at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:89) at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:214) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) Thanks, Fanchao