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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.rdd
+
+import org.apache.spark.{RDD, SparkContext, SparkEnv, Partition, TaskContext}
+
+
+/**
+ * An RDD that is empty, i.e. has no element in it.
+ */
+class EmptyRDD[T: ClassManifest](sc: SparkContext) extends RDD[T](sc, Nil) {
+
+  override def getPartitions: Array[Partition] = Array.empty
+
+  override def compute(split: Partition, context: TaskContext): Iterator[T] = {
+    throw new UnsupportedOperationException("empty RDD")
+  }
+}