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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.
#

# context.R: SparkContext driven functions

getMinPartitions <- function(sc, minPartitions) {
  if (is.null(minPartitions)) {
    defaultParallelism <- callJMethod(sc, "defaultParallelism")
    minPartitions <- min(defaultParallelism, 2)
  }
  as.integer(minPartitions)
}

#' Create an RDD from a text file.
#'
#' This function reads a text file from HDFS, a local file system (available on all
#' nodes), or any Hadoop-supported file system URI, and creates an
#' RDD of strings from it.
#'
#' @param sc SparkContext to use
#' @param path Path of file to read. A vector of multiple paths is allowed.
#' @param minPartitions Minimum number of partitions to be created. If NULL, the default
#'  value is chosen based on available parallelism.
#' @return RDD where each item is of type \code{character}
#' @export
#' @examples
#'\dontrun{
#'  sc <- sparkR.init()
#'  lines <- textFile(sc, "myfile.txt")
#'}
textFile <- function(sc, path, minPartitions = NULL) {
  # Allow the user to have a more flexible definiton of the text file path
  path <- suppressWarnings(normalizePath(path))
  #' Convert a string vector of paths to a string containing comma separated paths
  path <- paste(path, collapse = ",")

  jrdd <- callJMethod(sc, "textFile", path, getMinPartitions(sc, minPartitions))
  # jrdd is of type JavaRDD[String]
  RDD(jrdd, "string")
}

#' Load an RDD saved as a SequenceFile containing serialized objects.
#'
#' The file to be loaded should be one that was previously generated by calling
#' saveAsObjectFile() of the RDD class.
#'
#' @param sc SparkContext to use
#' @param path Path of file to read. A vector of multiple paths is allowed.
#' @param minPartitions Minimum number of partitions to be created. If NULL, the default
#'  value is chosen based on available parallelism.
#' @return RDD containing serialized R objects.
#' @seealso saveAsObjectFile
#' @export
#' @examples
#'\dontrun{
#'  sc <- sparkR.init()
#'  rdd <- objectFile(sc, "myfile")
#'}
objectFile <- function(sc, path, minPartitions = NULL) {
  # Allow the user to have a more flexible definiton of the text file path
  path <- suppressWarnings(normalizePath(path))
  #' Convert a string vector of paths to a string containing comma separated paths
  path <- paste(path, collapse = ",")

  jrdd <- callJMethod(sc, "objectFile", path, getMinPartitions(sc, minPartitions))
  # Assume the RDD contains serialized R objects.
  RDD(jrdd, "byte")
}

#' Create an RDD from a homogeneous list or vector.
#'
#' This function creates an RDD from a local homogeneous list in R. The elements
#' in the list are split into \code{numSlices} slices and distributed to nodes
#' in the cluster.
#'
#' @param sc SparkContext to use
#' @param coll collection to parallelize
#' @param numSlices number of partitions to create in the RDD
#' @return an RDD created from this collection
#' @export
#' @examples
#'\dontrun{
#' sc <- sparkR.init()
#' rdd <- parallelize(sc, 1:10, 2)
#' # The RDD should contain 10 elements
#' length(rdd)
#'}
parallelize <- function(sc, coll, numSlices = 1) {
  # TODO: bound/safeguard numSlices
  # TODO: unit tests for if the split works for all primitives
  # TODO: support matrix, data frame, etc
  if ((!is.list(coll) && !is.vector(coll)) || is.data.frame(coll)) {
    if (is.data.frame(coll)) {
      message(paste("context.R: A data frame is parallelized by columns."))
    } else {
      if (is.matrix(coll)) {
        message(paste("context.R: A matrix is parallelized by elements."))
      } else {
        message(paste("context.R: parallelize() currently only supports lists and vectors.",
                      "Calling as.list() to coerce coll into a list."))
      }
    }
    coll <- as.list(coll)
  }

  if (numSlices > length(coll))
    numSlices <- length(coll)

  sliceLen <- ceiling(length(coll) / numSlices)
  slices <- split(coll, rep(1:(numSlices + 1), each = sliceLen)[1:length(coll)])

  # Serialize each slice: obtain a list of raws, or a list of lists (slices) of
  # 2-tuples of raws
  serializedSlices <- lapply(slices, serialize, connection = NULL)

  jrdd <- callJStatic("org.apache.spark.api.r.RRDD",
                      "createRDDFromArray", sc, serializedSlices)

  RDD(jrdd, "byte")
}

#' Include this specified package on all workers
#'
#' This function can be used to include a package on all workers before the
#' user's code is executed. This is useful in scenarios where other R package
#' functions are used in a function passed to functions like \code{lapply}.
#' NOTE: The package is assumed to be installed on every node in the Spark
#' cluster.
#'
#' @param sc SparkContext to use
#' @param pkg Package name
#'
#' @export
#' @examples
#'\dontrun{
#'  library(Matrix)
#'
#'  sc <- sparkR.init()
#'  # Include the matrix library we will be using
#'  includePackage(sc, Matrix)
#'
#'  generateSparse <- function(x) {
#'    sparseMatrix(i=c(1, 2, 3), j=c(1, 2, 3), x=c(1, 2, 3))
#'  }
#'
#'  rdd <- lapplyPartition(parallelize(sc, 1:2, 2L), generateSparse)
#'  collect(rdd)
#'}
includePackage <- function(sc, pkg) {
  pkg <- as.character(substitute(pkg))
  if (exists(".packages", .sparkREnv)) {
    packages <- .sparkREnv$.packages
  } else {
    packages <- list()
  }
  packages <- c(packages, pkg)
  .sparkREnv$.packages <- packages
}

#' @title Broadcast a variable to all workers
#'
#' @description
#' Broadcast a read-only variable to the cluster, returning a \code{Broadcast}
#' object for reading it in distributed functions.
#'
#' @param sc Spark Context to use
#' @param object Object to be broadcast
#' @export
#' @examples
#'\dontrun{
#' sc <- sparkR.init()
#' rdd <- parallelize(sc, 1:2, 2L)
#'
#' # Large Matrix object that we want to broadcast
#' randomMat <- matrix(nrow=100, ncol=10, data=rnorm(1000))
#' randomMatBr <- broadcast(sc, randomMat)
#'
#' # Use the broadcast variable inside the function
#' useBroadcast <- function(x) {
#'   sum(value(randomMatBr) * x)
#' }
#' sumRDD <- lapply(rdd, useBroadcast)
#'}
broadcast <- function(sc, object) {
  objName <- as.character(substitute(object))
  serializedObj <- serialize(object, connection = NULL)

  jBroadcast <- callJMethod(sc, "broadcast", serializedObj)
  id <- as.character(callJMethod(jBroadcast, "id"))

  Broadcast(id, object, jBroadcast, objName)
}

#' @title Set the checkpoint directory
#'
#' Set the directory under which RDDs are going to be checkpointed. The
#' directory must be a HDFS path if running on a cluster.
#'
#' @param sc Spark Context to use
#' @param dirName Directory path
#' @export
#' @examples
#'\dontrun{
#' sc <- sparkR.init()
#' setCheckpointDir(sc, "~/checkpoint")
#' rdd <- parallelize(sc, 1:2, 2L)
#' checkpoint(rdd)
#'}
setCheckpointDir <- function(sc, dirName) {
  invisible(callJMethod(sc, "setCheckpointDir", suppressWarnings(normalizePath(dirName))))
}