[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-5270) Elegantly check if RDD is empty

["Al M (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Al M commented on SPARK-5270:
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I just noticed that rdd.partitions.size is set to 0 for empty RDDs and > 0 for RDDs with data; this is a far more elegant check than the others.

> Elegantly check if RDD is empty
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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
>            Priority: Trivial
>
> 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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