Changed method name of createReceiver to getReceiver as it is not intended to be a factory.

examples/src/main/scala/spark/streaming/examples/twitter/TwitterInputDStream.scala

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ class TwitterInputDStream(
     storageLevel: StorageLevel
     ) extends NetworkInputDStream[Status](ssc_)  {
 
-  override def createReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[Status] = {
+  override def getReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[Status] = {
     new TwitterReceiver(username, password, filters, storageLevel)
   }
 }

streaming/src/main/scala/spark/streaming/NetworkInputTracker.scala

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class NetworkInputTracker(
      */
     def startReceivers() {
       val receivers = networkInputStreams.map(nis => {
-        val rcvr = nis.createReceiver()
+        val rcvr = nis.getReceiver()
         rcvr.setStreamId(nis.id)
         rcvr
       })

streaming/src/main/scala/spark/streaming/dstream/FlumeInputDStream.scala

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class FlumeInputDStream[T: ClassManifest](
   storageLevel: StorageLevel
 ) extends NetworkInputDStream[SparkFlumeEvent](ssc_) {
 
-  override def createReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[SparkFlumeEvent] = {
+  override def getReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[SparkFlumeEvent] = {
     new FlumeReceiver(host, port, storageLevel)
   }
 }

streaming/src/main/scala/spark/streaming/dstream/KafkaInputDStream.scala

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ class KafkaInputDStream[T: ClassManifest](
     }
   } */
 
-  def createReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[T] = {
+  def getReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[T] = {
     new KafkaReceiver(host, port,  groupId, topics, initialOffsets, storageLevel)
         .asInstanceOf[NetworkReceiver[T]]
   }

streaming/src/main/scala/spark/streaming/dstream/NetworkInputDStream.scala

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.ArrayBlockingQueue
 /**
  * Abstract class for defining any InputDStream that has to start a receiver on worker
  * nodes to receive external data. Specific implementations of NetworkInputDStream must
- * define the createReceiver() function that creates the receiver object of type
+ * define the getReceiver() function that gets the receiver object of type
  * [[spark.streaming.dstream.NetworkReceiver]] that will be sent to the workers to receive
  * data.
  * @param ssc_ Streaming context that will execute this input stream
@@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ abstract class NetworkInputDStream[T: ClassManifest](@transient ssc_ : Streaming
   val id = ssc.getNewNetworkStreamId()
 
   /**
-   * Creates the receiver object that will be sent to the worker nodes
+   * Gets the receiver object that will be sent to the worker nodes
    * to receive data. This method needs to defined by any specific implementation
    * of a NetworkInputDStream.
    */
-  def createReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[T]
+  def getReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[T]
 
   // Nothing to start or stop as both taken care of by the NetworkInputTracker.
   def start() {}

streaming/src/main/scala/spark/streaming/dstream/RawInputDStream.scala

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ class RawInputDStream[T: ClassManifest](
     storageLevel: StorageLevel
   ) extends NetworkInputDStream[T](ssc_ ) with Logging {
 
-  def createReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[T] = {
+  def getReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[T] = {
     new RawNetworkReceiver(host, port, storageLevel).asInstanceOf[NetworkReceiver[T]]
   }
 }

streaming/src/main/scala/spark/streaming/dstream/SocketInputDStream.scala

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ class SocketInputDStream[T: ClassManifest](
     storageLevel: StorageLevel
   ) extends NetworkInputDStream[T](ssc_) {
 
-  def createReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[T] = {
+  def getReceiver(): NetworkReceiver[T] = {
     new SocketReceiver(host, port, bytesToObjects, storageLevel)
   }
 }