Hi,
Thanks for the answer.
regarding 2,3, its indeed the solution, but as I mentioned in my question, I
can as well do input checks (using .map) before applying any other rdd
operations. I still think that its overhead.
Regarding 1, this will make all the other rdd operations more complex, as I
hey igor!
a few ways to work around this depending on the level of exception-handling
granularity you're willing to accept:
1) use mapPartitions() to wrap the entire partition handling code in a
try/catch -- this is fairly coarse-grained, however, and will fail the
entire partition.
2) modify your
