import os import sys from subprocess import Popen, PIPE from threading import Thread from py4j.java_gateway import java_import, JavaGateway, GatewayClient SPARK_HOME = os.environ["SPARK_HOME"] def launch_gateway(): # Launch the Py4j gateway using Spark's run command so that we pick up the # proper classpath and SPARK_MEM settings from spark-env.sh command = [os.path.join(SPARK_HOME, "run"), "py4j.GatewayServer", "--die-on-broken-pipe", "0"] proc = Popen(command, stdout=PIPE, stdin=PIPE) # Determine which ephemeral port the server started on: port = int(proc.stdout.readline()) # Create a thread to echo output from the GatewayServer, which is required # for Java log output to show up: class EchoOutputThread(Thread): def __init__(self, stream): Thread.__init__(self) self.daemon = True self.stream = stream def run(self): while True: line = self.stream.readline() sys.stderr.write(line) EchoOutputThread(proc.stdout).start() # Connect to the gateway gateway = JavaGateway(GatewayClient(port=port), auto_convert=False) # Import the classes used by PySpark java_import(gateway.jvm, "spark.api.java.*") java_import(gateway.jvm, "spark.api.python.*") java_import(gateway.jvm, "scala.Tuple2") return gateway