Registring Kryo classes is not working

Question

I have the following code :

val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("MyApp")
val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
conf.set("spark.serializer", "org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer")
new conf.registerKryoClasses(new Class<?>[]{
        Class.forName("org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable"),
        Class.forName("org.apache.hadoop.io.Text")
    });

But I am bumping into the following error :

')' expected but '[' found.
[error]                 new conf.registerKryoClasses(new Class<?>[]{

How can I solve this problem ?

Answer 1

You're mixing Scala and Java. In Scala, you can define an Array[Class[_]] (instead of a Class<?>[]):

val conf = new SparkConf()
            .setAppName("MyApp")
            .set("spark.serializer", "org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer")
            .registerKryoClasses(Array[Class[_]](
              Class.forName("org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable"),
              Class.forName("org.apache.hadoop.io.Text")
            ));

val sc = new SparkContext(conf)

We can even do a little better. In order not to get our classes wrong using string literals, we can actually utilize the classes and use classOf to get their class type:

import org.apache.hadoop.io.LongWritable
import org.apache.hadoop.io.Text

val conf = new SparkConf()
            .setAppName("MyApp")
            .set("spark.serializer", "org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer")
            .registerKryoClasses(Array[Class[_]](
              classOf[LongWritable],
              classOf[Test],
            ))

val sc = new SparkContext(conf)