From Spark 1.2.0, it seems to be different from older version when you want to run your spark job on your local machine. Before v0.9.2 you can run standalone job with such code.

/*** SimpleApp.scala ***/
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext._

object SimpleApp {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val logFile = "$YOUR_SPARK_HOME/README.md" // Should be some file on your system
    val sc = new SparkContext("local", "Simple App", "YOUR_SPARK_HOME",
    List("target/scala-2.10/simple-project_2.10-1.0.jar"))
    val logData = sc.textFile(logFile, 2).cache()
    val numAs = logData.filter(line => line.contains("a")).count()
    val numBs = logData.filter(line => line.contains("b")).count()
    println("Lines with a: %s, Lines with b: %s".format(numAs, numBs))
  }
}

You can run this app with sbt command.

$ sbt run

That’s fine. But with latest version, you cannot find no more such documentation. I think spark does not anticipate the use case with sbt standalone running. So current version looks like below. SBT section has been totally changed and you should submit jar file to your local spark. But I found a way to run spark job by using sbt command with some changes. There are two major changes.

  • Must add master configuration
  • SparkContext should be stopped

I add these code to original one. This is the working one.

import org.apache.spark.SparkContext
import org.apache.spark.SparkContext._
import org.apache.spark.SparkConf

object SimpleApp {
  def main(args: Array[String]) {
    val logFile = "YOUR_SPARK_HOME/README.md" // Should be some file on your system
    val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("Simple Application")
      .setMaster("local[2]") // Set master configuration for local
    val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
    val logData = sc.textFile(logFile, 2).cache()
    val numAs = logData.filter(line => line.contains("a")).count()
    val numBs = logData.filter(line => line.contains("b")).count()
    println("Lines with a: %s, Lines with b: %s".format(numAs, numBs))
    sc.stop() // Stop SparkContext
  }
}

With these two lines, you can run sbt command.