Arguments/parameters in Spark shell scripts?

[Minnow Noir <mi...@gmail.com>]

How does one consume parameters passed to a Scala script via spark-shell
-i?


1. If I use an object with a main() method, the println outputs nothing as
if not called:

import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext._
import org.apache.spark.SparkConf

object Test {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
  println("args(0): " + args(0))
  }
}

System.exit(0)


spark-shell -i Test.scala pizza

=> no print output


2. If I use the Scala args insead, the compiler complains that the args
object

import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext._
import org.apache.spark.SparkConf

println("args(0): " + args(0))

System.exit(0)

spark-shell -i Test.scala pizza

=>
<console>:16: error: not found: value args
              println("args(0): " + args(0))


Thanks,

Alec