[SPARK-2399] Add support for LZ4 compression.

Based on Greg Bowyer's patch from JIRA https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2399

Author: Reynold Xin <rxin@apache.org>

Closes #1416 from rxin/lz4 and squashes the following commits:

6c8fefe [Reynold Xin] Fixed typo.
8a14d38 [Reynold Xin] [SPARK-2399] Add support for LZ4 compression.

3 files changed, 32 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index 4ed920a750..1054cec4d7 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -115,6 +115,10 @@
       <artifactId>snappy-java</artifactId>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
+      <groupId>net.jpountz.lz4</groupId>
+      <artifactId>lz4</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
       <groupId>com.twitter</groupId>
       <artifactId>chill_${scala.binary.version}</artifactId>
     </dependency>
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/io/CompressionCodec.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/io/CompressionCodec.scala
index 4b0fe1ab82..33402c927c 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/io/CompressionCodec.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/io/CompressionCodec.scala
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package org.apache.spark.io
 import java.io.{InputStream, OutputStream}
 
 import com.ning.compress.lzf.{LZFInputStream, LZFOutputStream}
+import net.jpountz.lz4.{LZ4BlockInputStream, LZ4BlockOutputStream}
 import org.xerial.snappy.{SnappyInputStream, SnappyOutputStream}
 
 import org.apache.spark.SparkConf
@@ -61,6 +62,27 @@ private[spark] object CompressionCodec {
 
 /**
  * :: DeveloperApi ::
+ * LZ4 implementation of [[org.apache.spark.io.CompressionCodec]].
+ * Block size can be configured by `spark.io.compression.lz4.block.size`.
+ *
+ * Note: The wire protocol for this codec is not guaranteed to be compatible across versions
+ *       of Spark. This is intended for use as an internal compression utility within a single Spark
+ *       application.
+ */
+@DeveloperApi
+class LZ4CompressionCodec(conf: SparkConf) extends CompressionCodec {
+
+  override def compressedOutputStream(s: OutputStream): OutputStream = {
+    val blockSize = conf.getInt("spark.io.compression.lz4.block.size", 32768)
+    new LZ4BlockOutputStream(s, blockSize)
+  }
+
+  override def compressedInputStream(s: InputStream): InputStream = new LZ4BlockInputStream(s)
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * :: DeveloperApi ::
  * LZF implementation of [[org.apache.spark.io.CompressionCodec]].
  *
  * Note: The wire protocol for this codec is not guaranteed to be compatible across versions
diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/io/CompressionCodecSuite.scala b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/io/CompressionCodecSuite.scala
index 68a0ea36aa..42fc395fa6 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/io/CompressionCodecSuite.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/io/CompressionCodecSuite.scala
@@ -50,6 +50,12 @@ class CompressionCodecSuite extends FunSuite {
     testCodec(codec)
   }
 
+  test("lz4 compression codec") {
+    val codec = CompressionCodec.createCodec(conf, classOf[LZ4CompressionCodec].getName)
+    assert(codec.getClass === classOf[LZ4CompressionCodec])
+    testCodec(codec)
+  }
+
   test("lzf compression codec") {
     val codec = CompressionCodec.createCodec(conf, classOf[LZFCompressionCodec].getName)
     assert(codec.getClass === classOf[LZFCompressionCodec])