Local Properties — Creating Logical Job Groups

The purpose of local properties concept is to create logical groups of jobs by means of properties that (regardless of the threads used to submit the jobs) makes the separate jobs launched from different threads belong to a single logical group.

You can set a local property that will affect Spark jobs submitted from a thread, such as the Spark fair scheduler pool. You can use your own custom properties. The properties are propagated through to worker tasks and can be accessed there via TaskContext.getLocalProperty.

Note	Propagating local properties to workers starts when `SparkContext` is requested to run or submit a Spark job that in turn passes them along to `DAGScheduler`.

Note	Local properties is used to group jobs into pools in FAIR job scheduler by spark.scheduler.pool per-thread property and in SQLExecution.withNewExecutionId Helper Methods

A common use case for the local property concept is to set a local property in a thread, say spark.scheduler.pool, after which all jobs submitted within the thread will be grouped, say into a pool by FAIR job scheduler.

val rdd = sc.parallelize(0 to 9)

sc.setLocalProperty("spark.scheduler.pool", "myPool")

// these two jobs (one per action) will run in the myPool pool
rdd.count
rdd.collect

sc.setLocalProperty("spark.scheduler.pool", null)

// this job will run in the default pool
rdd.count

Local Properties — `localProperties` Property

localProperties: InheritableThreadLocal[Properties]

localProperties is a protected[spark] property of a SparkContext that are the properties through which you can create logical job groups.

Tip	Read up on Java’s java.lang.InheritableThreadLocal.

Setting Local Property — `setLocalProperty` Method

setLocalProperty(key: String, value: String): Unit

setLocalProperty sets key local property to value.

Tip	When `value` is `null` the `key` property is removed from localProperties.

Getting Local Property — `getLocalProperty` Method

getLocalProperty(key: String): String

getLocalProperty gets a local property by key in this thread. It returns null if key is missing.

Getting Local Properties — `getLocalProperties` Method

getLocalProperties: Properties

getLocalProperties is a private[spark] method that gives access to localProperties.

`setLocalProperties` Method

setLocalProperties(props: Properties): Unit

setLocalProperties is a private[spark] method that sets props as localProperties.

Local Properties — Creating Logical Job Groups