I am running a couple of functions on an RDD which require access to data on the file system known to the context. If I create a class with a context a a member variable I get a serialization error,
So I am running my function on some slave and I want to read in data from a Path defined by a string and easy to read from my driver program Later in the program the same issue arises in writing data except I would like to access a tast attempt string so different attempts do not write the same file. How can a piece of java code running inside a function on some slave get at the Task?