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Andrew Or ba3c730e35 [SPARK-3140] Clarify confusing PySpark exception message
We read the py4j port from the stdout of the `bin/spark-submit` subprocess. If there is interference in stdout (e.g. a random echo in `spark-submit`), we throw an exception with a warning message. We do not, however, distinguish between this case from the case where no stdout is produced at all.

I wasted a non-trivial amount of time being baffled by this exception in search of places where I print random whitespace (in vain, of course). A clearer exception message that distinguishes between these cases will prevent similar headaches that I have gone through.

Author: Andrew Or <andrewor14@gmail.com>

Closes #2067 from andrewor14/python-exception and squashes the following commits:

742f823 [Andrew Or] Further clarify warning messages
e96a7a0 [Andrew Or] Distinguish between unexpected output and no output at all
2014-08-20 17:07:39 -07:00
assembly [SPARK-2848] Shade Guava in uber-jars. 2014-08-20 16:23:10 -07:00
bagel [SPARK-2410][SQL] Merging Hive Thrift/JDBC server (with Maven profile fix) 2014-07-28 12:07:30 -07:00
bin [SPARK-2849] Handle driver configs separately in client mode 2014-08-20 15:01:47 -07:00
conf [SPARK-2849] Handle driver configs separately in client mode 2014-08-20 15:01:47 -07:00
core [SPARK-2848] Shade Guava in uber-jars. 2014-08-20 16:23:10 -07:00
data/mllib SPARK-2363. Clean MLlib's sample data files 2014-07-13 19:27:43 -07:00
dev [SPARK-3126][SPARK-3127][SQL] Fixed HiveThriftServer2Suite 2014-08-20 12:57:39 -07:00
docker [SPARK-1342] Scala 2.10.4 2014-04-01 18:35:50 -07:00
docs SPARK-3092 [SQL]: Always include the thriftserver when -Phive is enabled. 2014-08-20 12:13:31 -07:00
ec2 SPARK-2333 - spark_ec2 script should allow option for existing security group 2014-08-19 13:35:05 -07:00
examples [SPARK-2848] Shade Guava in uber-jars. 2014-08-20 16:23:10 -07:00
external [SPARK-3054][STREAMING] Add unit tests for Spark Sink. 2014-08-20 04:09:54 -07:00
extras [SPARK-1981] Add AWS Kinesis streaming support 2014-08-02 13:35:35 -07:00
graphx SPARK-2045 Sort-based shuffle 2014-07-30 18:07:59 -07:00
mllib [SPARK-3142][MLLIB] output shuffle data directly in Word2Vec 2014-08-19 22:16:22 -07:00
project [SPARK-2848] Shade Guava in uber-jars. 2014-08-20 16:23:10 -07:00
python [SPARK-3140] Clarify confusing PySpark exception message 2014-08-20 17:07:39 -07:00
repl [SPARK-2157] Enable tight firewall rules for Spark 2014-08-06 00:07:40 -07:00
sbin SPARK_LOGFILE and SPARK_ROOT_LOGGER no longer need in spark-daemon.sh 2014-08-20 16:00:46 -07:00
sbt [SPARK-2437] Rename MAVEN_PROFILES to SBT_MAVEN_PROFILES and add SBT_MAVEN_PROPERTIES 2014-07-11 11:52:35 -07:00
sql [SPARK-2846][SQL] Add configureInputJobPropertiesForStorageHandler to initialization of job conf 2014-08-20 16:14:06 -07:00
streaming [HOTFIX][Streaming][MLlib] use temp folder for checkpoint 2014-08-19 22:05:29 -07:00
tools SPARK-2566. Update ShuffleWriteMetrics incrementally 2014-08-06 13:10:33 -07:00
yarn [SPARK-2974] [SPARK-2975] Fix two bugs related to spark.local.dirs 2014-08-19 22:42:50 -07:00
.gitignore [SPARK-2410][SQL] Merging Hive Thrift/JDBC server (with Maven profile fix) 2014-07-28 12:07:30 -07:00
.rat-excludes [SPARK-2736] PySpark converter and example script for reading Avro files 2014-08-14 19:03:51 -07:00
LICENSE SPARK-2414 [BUILD] Add LICENSE entry for jquery 2014-08-02 21:55:56 -07:00
make-distribution.sh Fix some bugs with spaces in directory name. 2014-08-03 19:47:05 -07:00
NOTICE SPARK-1827. LICENSE and NOTICE files need a refresh to contain transitive dependency info 2014-05-14 09:38:33 -07:00
pom.xml [SPARK-2848] Shade Guava in uber-jars. 2014-08-20 16:23:10 -07:00
README.md SPARK-3092 [SQL]: Always include the thriftserver when -Phive is enabled. 2014-08-20 12:13:31 -07:00
scalastyle-config.xml SPARK-1096, a space after comment start style checker. 2014-03-28 00:21:49 -07:00
tox.ini [SPARK-2627] [PySpark] have the build enforce PEP 8 automatically 2014-08-06 12:58:24 -07:00

Apache Spark

Spark is a fast and general cluster computing system for Big Data. It provides high-level APIs in Scala, Java, and Python, and an optimized engine that supports general computation graphs for data analysis. It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and structured data processing, MLLib for machine learning, GraphX for graph processing, and Spark Streaming.

http://spark.apache.org/

Online Documentation

You can find the latest Spark documentation, including a programming guide, on the project webpage at http://spark.apache.org/documentation.html. This README file only contains basic setup instructions.

Building Spark

Spark is built on Scala 2.10. To build Spark and its example programs, run:

./sbt/sbt assembly

(You do not need to do this if you downloaded a pre-built package.)

Interactive Scala Shell

The easiest way to start using Spark is through the Scala shell:

./bin/spark-shell

Try the following command, which should return 1000:

scala> sc.parallelize(1 to 1000).count()

Interactive Python Shell

Alternatively, if you prefer Python, you can use the Python shell:

./bin/pyspark

And run the following command, which should also return 1000:

>>> sc.parallelize(range(1000)).count()

Example Programs

Spark also comes with several sample programs in the examples directory. To run one of them, use ./bin/run-example <class> [params]. For example:

./bin/run-example SparkPi

will run the Pi example locally.

You can set the MASTER environment variable when running examples to submit examples to a cluster. This can be a mesos:// or spark:// URL, "yarn-cluster" or "yarn-client" to run on YARN, and "local" to run locally with one thread, or "local[N]" to run locally with N threads. You can also use an abbreviated class name if the class is in the examples package. For instance:

MASTER=spark://host:7077 ./bin/run-example SparkPi

Many of the example programs print usage help if no params are given.

Running Tests

Testing first requires building Spark. Once Spark is built, tests can be run using:

./sbt/sbt test

A Note About Hadoop Versions

Spark uses the Hadoop core library to talk to HDFS and other Hadoop-supported storage systems. Because the protocols have changed in different versions of Hadoop, you must build Spark against the same version that your cluster runs. You can change the version by setting -Dhadoop.version when building Spark.

For Apache Hadoop versions 1.x, Cloudera CDH MRv1, and other Hadoop versions without YARN, use:

# Apache Hadoop 1.2.1
$ sbt/sbt -Dhadoop.version=1.2.1 assembly

# Cloudera CDH 4.2.0 with MapReduce v1
$ sbt/sbt -Dhadoop.version=2.0.0-mr1-cdh4.2.0 assembly

For Apache Hadoop 2.2.X, 2.1.X, 2.0.X, 0.23.x, Cloudera CDH MRv2, and other Hadoop versions with YARN, also set -Pyarn:

# Apache Hadoop 2.0.5-alpha
$ sbt/sbt -Dhadoop.version=2.0.5-alpha -Pyarn assembly

# Cloudera CDH 4.2.0 with MapReduce v2
$ sbt/sbt -Dhadoop.version=2.0.0-cdh4.2.0 -Pyarn assembly

# Apache Hadoop 2.2.X and newer
$ sbt/sbt -Dhadoop.version=2.2.0 -Pyarn assembly

When developing a Spark application, specify the Hadoop version by adding the "hadoop-client" artifact to your project's dependencies. For example, if you're using Hadoop 1.2.1 and build your application using SBT, add this entry to libraryDependencies:

"org.apache.hadoop" % "hadoop-client" % "1.2.1"

If your project is built with Maven, add this to your POM file's <dependencies> section:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.hadoop</groupId>
  <artifactId>hadoop-client</artifactId>
  <version>1.2.1</version>
</dependency>

A Note About Thrift JDBC server and CLI for Spark SQL

Spark SQL supports Thrift JDBC server and CLI. See sql-programming-guide.md for more information about using the JDBC server.

Configuration

Please refer to the Configuration guide in the online documentation for an overview on how to configure Spark.

Contributing to Spark

Contributions via GitHub pull requests are gladly accepted from their original author. Along with any pull requests, please state that the contribution is your original work and that you license the work to the project under the project's open source license. Whether or not you state this explicitly, by submitting any copyrighted material via pull request, email, or other means you agree to license the material under the project's open source license and warrant that you have the legal authority to do so.