[jira] [Updated] (SPARK-4783) System.exit() calls in SparkContext disrupt applications embedding Spark

["Patrick Wendell (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4783?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Patrick Wendell updated SPARK-4783:
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    Summary: System.exit() calls in SparkContext disrupt applications embedding Spark  (was: Remove all System.exit calls from sparkcontext)

> System.exit() calls in SparkContext disrupt applications embedding Spark
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-4783
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4783
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: David Semeria
>
> A common architectural choice for integrating Spark within a larger application is to employ a gateway to handle Spark jobs. The gateway is a server which contains one or more long-running sparkcontexts.
> A typical server is created with the following pseudo code:
> var continue = true
> while (continue){
>  try {
>     server.run() 
>   } catch (e) {
>   continue = log_and_examine_error(e)
> }
> The problem is that sparkcontext frequently calls System.exit when it encounters a problem which means the server can only be re-spawned at the process level, which is much more messy than the simple code above.
> Therefore, I believe it makes sense to replace all System.exit calls in sparkcontext with the throwing of a fatal error. 



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