[jira] [Updated] (SPARK-27851) Allow for custom BroadcastMode#transform return values

["Marc Arndt (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-27851?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Marc Arndt updated SPARK-27851:
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    Summary: Allow for custom BroadcastMode#transform return values  (was: Allow for custom BroadcastMode return values)

> Allow for custom BroadcastMode#transform return values
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-27851
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-27851
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Optimizer, SQL
>    Affects Versions: 2.4.3
>            Reporter: Marc Arndt
>            Priority: Major
>
> According to the BroadcastMode API the BroadcastMode#transform methods are allows to return a result object of an arbitrary type:
> {code:scala}
> /**
>  * Marker trait to identify the shape in which tuples are broadcasted. Typical examples of this are
>  * identity (tuples remain unchanged) or hashed (tuples are converted into some hash index).
>  */
> trait BroadcastMode {
>   def transform(rows: Array[InternalRow]): Any
>   def transform(rows: Iterator[InternalRow], sizeHint: Option[Long]): Any
>   def canonicalized: BroadcastMode
> }
> {code}
> When looking at the code which later uses the instantiated BroadcastMode objects in BroadcastExchangeExec it becomes that this is not really the base. 
> The following lines in BroadcastExchangeExec suggest that only objects of type HashedRelation and Array[InternalRow] are allowed as a result for the BroadcastMode#transform methods:
> {code:scala}
> // Construct the relation.
> val relation = mode.transform(input, Some(numRows))
> val dataSize = relation match {
>     case map: HashedRelation =>
>         map.estimatedSize
>     case arr: Array[InternalRow] =>
>         arr.map(_.asInstanceOf[UnsafeRow].getSizeInBytes.toLong).sum
>     case _ =>
>         throw new SparkException("[BUG] BroadcastMode.transform returned unexpected type: " +
>             relation.getClass.getName)
> }
> {code}
> I believe that this is the only occurrence in the code where the result of the BroadcastMode#transform method must be either of type HashedRelation or Array[InternalRow]. Therefore to allow for broader custom implementations of the BroadcastMode I believe it would be a good idea to solve the calculation of the data size of the broadcast value in an independent way of the used BroadcastMode implemented.
> One way this could be done is by providing an additional BroadcastMode#calculateDataSize method, which needs to be implemented by the BroadcastMode implementations. This methods could then return the required number of bytes for a given broadcast value.



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