Use SparkContext hadoop configuration within RDD methods/closures, like foreachPartition

Question

I am using Spark to read a bunch of files, elaborating on them and then saving all of them as a Sequence file. What I wanted, was to have 1 sequence file per partition, so I did this:

SparkConf sparkConf = new SparkConf().setAppName("writingHDFS")
                .setMaster("local[2]")
                .set("spark.streaming.stopGracefullyOnShutdown", "true");
        final JavaSparkContext jsc = new JavaSparkContext(sparkConf);
        jsc.hadoopConfiguration().addResource(hdfsConfPath + "hdfs-site.xml");
        jsc.hadoopConfiguration().addResource(hdfsConfPath + "core-site.xml");
        //JavaStreamingContext jssc = new JavaStreamingContext(sparkConf, new Duration(5*1000));

        JavaPairRDD<String, PortableDataStream> imageByteRDD = jsc.binaryFiles(sourcePath);
        if(!imageByteRDD.isEmpty())
            imageByteRDD.foreachPartition(new VoidFunction<Iterator<Tuple2<String,PortableDataStream>>>() {

                @Override
                public void call(Iterator<Tuple2<String, PortableDataStream>> arg0){
                        throws Exception {
                  [°°°SOME STUFF°°°]
                  SequenceFile.Writer writer = SequenceFile.createWriter(
                                     jsc.hadoopConfiguration(), 
//here lies the problem: how to pass the hadoopConfiguration I have put inside the Spark Context? 
Previously, I created a Configuration for each partition, and it works, but I'm sure there is a much more "sparky way"

Does anybody know how to use the Hadoop Configuration Object inside the RDD closures?

Answer 1

Looks like it cannot be done, so here is the code I used:

final hdfsNameNodePath = "hdfs://quickstart.cloudera:8080";

JavaPairRDD<String, PortableDataStream> imageByteRDD = jsc.binaryFiles(sourcePath);
        if(!imageByteRDD.isEmpty())
            imageByteRDD.foreachPartition(new VoidFunction<Iterator<Tuple2<String,PortableDataStream>>>() {

                @Override
                public void call(Iterator<Tuple2<String, PortableDataStream>> arg0)
                        throws Exception {

                    Configuration conf = new Configuration();
                    conf.set("fs.defaultFS", hdfsNameNodePath);
                    //the string above should be passed as argument
SequenceFile.Writer writer = SequenceFile.createWriter(
                                     conf, 
                                     SequenceFile.Writer.file([***ETCETERA...