I would like to test a simply Spark row count job on a test Cassandra table with only four rows just to verify that everything works.
I can quickly get this working from Java:
JavaSparkContext sc = new JavaSparkContext(conf);
SparkContextJavaFunctions sparkContextJavaFunctions = CassandraJavaUtil.javaFunctions(sc);
CassandraJavaRDD<CassandraRow> table = sparkContextJavaFunctions.cassandraTable("demo", "playlists");
long count = table.count();
Now, I'd like to get the same thing working in Python. The Spark distribution comes with a set of unbundled PySpark source code to use Spark from Python. It uses a library called py4j to launch a Java server and marshal java commands through a TCP gateway. I'm using that gateway directly to get this working.
I specify the following extra jars to the Java SparkSubmit host via the --driver-class-path option:
spark-cassandra-connector-java_2.11-1.2.0-rc1.jar
spark-cassandra-connector_2.11-1.2.0-rc1.jar
cassandra-thrift-2.1.3.jar
cassandra-clientutil-2.1.3.jar
cassandra-driver-core-2.1.5.jar
libthrift-0.9.2.jar
joda-convert-1.2.jar
joda-time-2.3.jar
Here is the core Python code to do the row count test:
from pyspark.java_gateway import launch_gateway
jvm_gateway = launch_gateway()
sc = jvm_gateway.jvm.org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext(conf)
spark_cass_functions = jvm_gateway.jvm.com.datastax.spark.connector.japi.CassandraJavaUtil.javaFunctions(sc)
table = spark_cass_functions.cassandraTable("demo", "playlists");
On this last line, I get the following error:
py4j.protocol.Py4JJavaError: An error occurred while calling o5.cassandraTable.
: com.datastax.spark.connector.util.ConfigCheck$ConnectorConfigurationException: Invalid Config Variables
Only known spark.cassandra.* variables are allowed when using the Spark Cassandra Connector.
spark.cassandra.connection.conf.factory is not a valid Spark Cassandra Connector variable.
No likely matches found.
spark.cassandra.auth.conf.factory is not a valid Spark Cassandra Connector variable.
No likely matches found.
at com.datastax.spark.connector.util.ConfigCheck$.checkConfig(ConfigCheck.scala:38)
at com.datastax.spark.connector.rdd.CassandraRDD.<init>(CassandraRDD.scala:18)
at com.datastax.spark.connector.rdd.CassandraTableScanRDD.<init>(CassandraTableScanRDD.scala:59)
at com.datastax.spark.connector.rdd.CassandraTableScanRDD$.apply(CassandraTableScanRDD.scala:182)
at com.datastax.spark.connector.japi.SparkContextJavaFunctions.cassandraTable(SparkContextJavaFunctions.java:88)
at com.datastax.spark.connector.japi.SparkContextJavaFunctions.cassandraTable(SparkContextJavaFunctions.java:68)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:497)
at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:231)
at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:379)
at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:259)
at py4j.commands.AbstractCommand.invokeMethod(AbstractCommand.java:133)
at py4j.commands.CallCommand.execute(CallCommand.java:79)
at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:207)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Clearly, there is some configuration or setup issue. I'm not sure how to reasonably debug or investigate or what I could try. Can anyone with more Cassandra/Python/Spark expertise provide some advice? Thank you!
EDIT: A coworker setup a spark-defaults.conf file that was the root of this. I don't fully understand why this caused problems from Python and not from Java, but it doesn't matter. I don't want that conf file and removing it resolved by issue.
