Task not serializable: java.io.NotSerializableException when calling function outside closure only on classes not objects

Question

Getting strange behavior when calling function outside of a closure:

• when function is in a object everything is working
• when function is in a class ge

Answer 1

I'm not entirely certain that this applies to Scala but, in Java, I solved the NotSerializableException by refactoring my code so that the closure did not access a non-serializable final field.