[SPARK-5361]Multiple Java RDD <-> Python RDD conversions not working correctly

This is found through reading RDD from `sc.newAPIHadoopRDD` and writing it back using `rdd.saveAsNewAPIHadoopFile` in pyspark.

It turns out that whenever there are multiple RDD conversions from JavaRDD to PythonRDD then back to JavaRDD, the exception below happens:

```
15/01/16 10:28:31 ERROR Executor: Exception in task 0.0 in stage 3.0 (TID 7)
java.lang.ClassCastException: [Ljava.lang.Object; cannot be cast to java.util.ArrayList
	at org.apache.spark.api.python.SerDeUtil$$anonfun$pythonToJava$1$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(SerDeUtil.scala:157)
	at org.apache.spark.api.python.SerDeUtil$$anonfun$pythonToJava$1$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(SerDeUtil.scala:153)
	at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$13.hasNext(Iterator.scala:371)
	at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$10.hasNext(Iterator.scala:308)
```

The test case code below reproduces it:

```
from pyspark.rdd import RDD

dl = [
    (u'2', {u'director': u'David Lean'}),
    (u'7', {u'director': u'Andrew Dominik'})
]

dl_rdd = sc.parallelize(dl)
tmp = dl_rdd._to_java_object_rdd()
tmp2 = sc._jvm.SerDe.javaToPython(tmp)
t = RDD(tmp2, sc)
t.count()

tmp = t._to_java_object_rdd()
tmp2 = sc._jvm.SerDe.javaToPython(tmp)
t = RDD(tmp2, sc)
t.count() # it blows up here during the 2nd time of conversion
```

Author: Winston Chen <wchen@quid.com>

Closes #4146 from wingchen/master and squashes the following commits:

903df7d [Winston Chen] SPARK-5361, update to toSeq based on the PR
5d90a83 [Winston Chen] SPARK-5361, make python pretty, so to pass PEP 8 checks
126be6b [Winston Chen] SPARK-5361, add in test case
4cf1187 [Winston Chen] SPARK-5361, add in test case
9f1a097 [Winston Chen] add in tuple handling while converting form python RDD back to JavaRDD

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/python/pyspark/tests.py b/python/pyspark/tests.py
index e8e207af46..e694ffcff5 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/tests.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/tests.py
@@ -714,6 +714,25 @@ class RDDTests(ReusedPySparkTestCase):
         wr_s21 = rdd.sample(True, 0.4, 21).collect()
         self.assertNotEqual(set(wr_s11), set(wr_s21))
 
+    def test_multiple_python_java_RDD_conversions(self):
+        # Regression test for SPARK-5361
+        data = [
+            (u'1', {u'director': u'David Lean'}),
+            (u'2', {u'director': u'Andrew Dominik'})
+        ]
+        from pyspark.rdd import RDD
+        data_rdd = self.sc.parallelize(data)
+        data_java_rdd = data_rdd._to_java_object_rdd()
+        data_python_rdd = self.sc._jvm.SerDe.javaToPython(data_java_rdd)
+        converted_rdd = RDD(data_python_rdd, self.sc)
+        self.assertEqual(2, converted_rdd.count())
+
+        # conversion between python and java RDD threw exceptions
+        data_java_rdd = converted_rdd._to_java_object_rdd()
+        data_python_rdd = self.sc._jvm.SerDe.javaToPython(data_java_rdd)
+        converted_rdd = RDD(data_python_rdd, self.sc)
+        self.assertEqual(2, converted_rdd.count())
+
 
 class ProfilerTests(PySparkTestCase):