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[jira] [Updated] (SPARK-5270) Provide isEmpty() function in RDD API
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5270?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Patrick Wendell updated SPARK-5270:
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Summary: Provide isEmpty() function in RDD API (was: Provide isEmpty utility function in RDD API)
> Provide isEmpty() function in RDD API
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> Key: SPARK-5270
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5270
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: 1.2.0
> Environment: Centos 6
> Reporter: Al M
> Assignee: Sean Owen
> Priority: Trivial
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> Right now there is no clean way to check if an RDD is empty. As discussed here: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Testing-if-an-RDD-is-empty-td1678.html#a1679
> I'd like a method rdd.isEmpty that returns a boolean.
> This would be especially useful when using streams. Sometimes my batches are huge in one stream, sometimes I get nothing for hours. Still I have to run count() to check if there is anything in the RDD. I can process my empty RDD like the others but it would be more efficient to just skip the empty ones.
> I can also run first() and catch the exception; this is neither a clean nor fast solution.
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