2 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/core/pom.xml b/core/pom.xml
index a1bdd8ec68..d87e2bca03 100644
--- a/core/pom.xml
+++ b/core/pom.xml
@@ -266,6 +266,11 @@
       <artifactId>junit-interface</artifactId>
       <scope>test</scope>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>org.spark-project</groupId>
+      <artifactId>pyrolite</artifactId>
+      <version>2.0</version>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
   <build>
     <outputDirectory>target/scala-${scala.binary.version}/classes</outputDirectory>
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/python/PythonRDD.scala b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/python/PythonRDD.scala
index 32f1100406..f9d86fed34 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/python/PythonRDD.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/python/PythonRDD.scala
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ import java.util.{List => JList, ArrayList => JArrayList, Map => JMap, Collectio
 import scala.collection.JavaConversions._
 import scala.reflect.ClassTag
 
+import net.razorvine.pickle.{Pickler, Unpickler}
+
 import org.apache.spark._
 import org.apache.spark.api.java.{JavaSparkContext, JavaPairRDD, JavaRDD}
 import org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast
@@ -284,6 +286,36 @@ private[spark] object PythonRDD {
     file.close()
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Convert an RDD of serialized Python dictionaries to Scala Maps
+   * TODO: Support more Python types.
+   */
+  def pythonToJavaMap(pyRDD: JavaRDD[Array[Byte]]): JavaRDD[Map[String, _]] = {
+    pyRDD.rdd.mapPartitions { iter =>
+      val unpickle = new Unpickler
+      // TODO: Figure out why flatMap is necessay for pyspark
+      iter.flatMap { row =>
+        unpickle.loads(row) match {
+          case objs: java.util.ArrayList[JMap[String, _] @unchecked] => objs.map(_.toMap)
+          // Incase the partition doesn't have a collection
+          case obj: JMap[String @unchecked, _] => Seq(obj.toMap)
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Convert and RDD of Java objects to and RDD of serialized Python objects, that is usable by
+   * PySpark.
+   */
+  def javaToPython(jRDD: JavaRDD[Any]): JavaRDD[Array[Byte]] = {
+    jRDD.rdd.mapPartitions { iter =>
+      val pickle = new Pickler
+      iter.map { row =>
+        pickle.dumps(row)
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 private