Spark RDD - Mapping with extra arguments

Question

Is it possible to pass extra arguments to the mapping function in pySpark? Specifically, I have the following code recipe:

raw_data_rdd = sc.textFile(\"data.jso         


        

Answer 1

1. You can use an anonymous function either directly in a flatMap

   json_data_rdd.flatMap(lambda j: processDataLine(j, arg1, arg2))
   

   or to curry processDataLine

   f = lambda j: processDataLine(dataline, arg1, arg2)
   json_data_rdd.flatMap(f)
   

2. You can generate processDataLine like this:

   def processDataLine(arg1, arg2):
       def _processDataLine(dataline):
           return ... # Do something with dataline, arg1, arg2
       return _processDataLine
   
   json_data_rdd.flatMap(processDataLine(arg1, arg2))
   

3. toolz library provides useful curry decorator:

   from toolz.functoolz import curry
   
   @curry
   def processDataLine(arg1, arg2, dataline): 
       return ... # Do something with dataline, arg1, arg2
   
   json_data_rdd.flatMap(processDataLine(arg1, arg2))
   

   Note that I've pushed dataline argument to the last position. It is not required but this way we don't have to use keyword args.

4. Finally there is functools.partial already mentioned by Avihoo Mamka in the comments.