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Using drools in a Spark job


I am trying to use drools in spark job submitted to a cluster. THe job will start by getting the drools jar from a drools server then initialize the base and sessions. My code work when executed in Spark but when submitting to spark cluster a NPE happens.

This is how I am doing

String url = "{my server address}/drools-wb/maven2/com/myspace/Project1/1.0.0/Project1-1.0.0.jar";
KieServices ks = KieServices.Factory.get();

//ERROR is in the below line 
ReleaseId releaseId = ks.newReleaseId("com.myspace", "Project1", "1.0.0"); 

KieRepository kr = ks.getRepository();
UrlResource urlResource = (UrlResource) ks.getResources().newUrlResource(url);

The error shown after submitting the code:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at org.opencell.spark.jobs.TestWithDrools.main(TestWithDrools.java:47)
    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:498)
    at org.apache.spark.deploy.JavaMainApplication.start(SparkApplication.scala:52)
    at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.org$apache$spark$deploy$SparkSubmit$$runMain(SparkSubmit.scala:879)
    at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.doRunMain$1(SparkSubmit.scala:197)
    at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.submit(SparkSubmit.scala:227)
    at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit$.main(SparkSubmit.scala:136)
    at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkSubmit.main(SparkSubmit.scala)
2018-08-29 10:08:09 INFO  ShutdownHookManager:54 - Shutdown hook called

Do you have an idea about solving this issue ?


Solution

  • The issue is caused because ks is null.

    So to resolve this issue please refer to this post:

    Drools 7.4.1 kieservices.factory.get() returns null