`TaskContext.attemptId` is misleadingly-named, since it currently returns a taskId, which uniquely identifies a particular task attempt within a particular SparkContext, instead of an attempt number, which conveys how many times a task has been attempted.
This patch deprecates `TaskContext.attemptId` and add `TaskContext.taskId` and `TaskContext.attemptNumber` fields. Prior to this change, it was impossible to determine whether a task was being re-attempted (or was a speculative copy), which made it difficult to write unit tests for tasks that fail on early attempts or speculative tasks that complete faster than original tasks.
Earlier versions of the TaskContext docs suggest that `attemptId` behaves like `attemptNumber`, so there's an argument to be made in favor of changing this method's implementation. Since we've decided against making that change in maintenance branches, I think it's simpler to add better-named methods and retain the old behavior for `attemptId`; if `attemptId` behaved differently in different branches, then this would cause confusing build-breaks when backporting regression tests that rely on the new `attemptId` behavior.
Most of this patch is fairly straightforward, but there is a bit of trickiness related to Mesos tasks: since there's no field in MesosTaskInfo to encode the attemptId, I packed it into the `data` field alongside the task binary.
Author: Josh Rosen <joshrosen@databricks.com>
Closes#3849 from JoshRosen/SPARK-4014 and squashes the following commits:
89d03e0 [Josh Rosen] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into SPARK-4014
5cfff05 [Josh Rosen] Introduce wrapper for serializing Mesos task launch data.
38574d4 [Josh Rosen] attemptId -> taskAttemptId in PairRDDFunctions
a180b88 [Josh Rosen] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into SPARK-4014
1d43aa6 [Josh Rosen] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into SPARK-4014
eee6a45 [Josh Rosen] Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/master' into SPARK-4014
0b10526 [Josh Rosen] Use putInt instead of putLong (silly mistake)
8c387ce [Josh Rosen] Use local with maxRetries instead of local-cluster.
cbe4d76 [Josh Rosen] Preserve attemptId behavior and deprecate it:
b2dffa3 [Josh Rosen] Address some of Reynold's minor comments
9d8d4d1 [Josh Rosen] Doc typo
1e7a933 [Josh Rosen] [SPARK-4014] Change TaskContext.attemptId to return attempt number instead of task ID.
fd515a5 [Josh Rosen] Add failing test for SPARK-4014
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