Building Spark

Building Apache Spark
Running Tests

Building Apache Spark

Apache Maven

The Maven-based build is the build of reference for Apache Spark. Building Spark using Maven requires Maven 3.3.9 or newer and Java 7+.

Setting up Maven’s Memory Usage

You’ll need to configure Maven to use more memory than usual by setting MAVEN_OPTS:

export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx2g -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=512m"

When compiling with Java 7, you will need to add the additional option “-XX:MaxPermSize=512M” to MAVEN_OPTS.

If you don’t add these parameters to MAVEN_OPTS, you may see errors and warnings like the following:

[INFO] Compiling 203 Scala sources and 9 Java sources to /Users/me/Development/spark/core/target/scala-2.11/classes...
[ERROR] PermGen space -> [Help 1]

[INFO] Compiling 203 Scala sources and 9 Java sources to /Users/me/Development/spark/core/target/scala-2.11/classes...
[ERROR] Java heap space -> [Help 1]

[INFO] Compiling 233 Scala sources and 41 Java sources to /Users/me/Development/spark/sql/core/target/scala-{site.SCALA_BINARY_VERSION}/classes...
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: CodeCache is full. Compiler has been disabled.
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM warning: Try increasing the code cache size using -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=

You can fix these problems by setting the MAVEN_OPTS variable as discussed before.

Note:

If using build/mvn with no MAVEN_OPTS set, the script will automatically add the above options to the MAVEN_OPTS environment variable.
The test phase of the Spark build will automatically add these options to MAVEN_OPTS, even when not using build/mvn.
You may see warnings like “ignoring option MaxPermSize=1g; support was removed in 8.0” when building or running tests with Java 8 and build/mvn. These warnings are harmless.

build/mvn

Spark now comes packaged with a self-contained Maven installation to ease building and deployment of Spark from source located under the build/ directory. This script will automatically download and setup all necessary build requirements (Maven, Scala, and Zinc) locally within the build/ directory itself. It honors any mvn binary if present already, however, will pull down its own copy of Scala and Zinc regardless to ensure proper version requirements are met. build/mvn execution acts as a pass through to the mvn call allowing easy transition from previous build methods. As an example, one can build a version of Spark as follows:

./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.4 -Dhadoop.version=2.4.0 -DskipTests clean package

Other build examples can be found below.

Building a Runnable Distribution

To create a Spark distribution like those distributed by the Spark Downloads page, and that is laid out so as to be runnable, use ./dev/make-distribution.sh in the project root directory. It can be configured with Maven profile settings and so on like the direct Maven build. Example:

./dev/make-distribution.sh --name custom-spark --tgz -Psparkr -Phadoop-2.4 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver -Pyarn

For more information on usage, run ./dev/make-distribution.sh --help

Specifying the Hadoop Version

Because HDFS is not protocol-compatible across versions, if you want to read from HDFS, you’ll need to build Spark against the specific HDFS version in your environment. You can do this through the hadoop.version property. If unset, Spark will build against Hadoop 2.2.0 by default. Note that certain build profiles are required for particular Hadoop versions:

Hadoop version	Profile required
2.2.x	hadoop-2.2
2.3.x	hadoop-2.3
2.4.x	hadoop-2.4
2.6.x	hadoop-2.6
2.7.x and later 2.x	hadoop-2.7

You can enable the yarn profile and optionally set the yarn.version property if it is different from hadoop.version. Spark only supports YARN versions 2.2.0 and later.

Examples:

# Apache Hadoop 2.2.X
./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.2 -DskipTests clean package

# Apache Hadoop 2.3.X
./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Dhadoop.version=2.3.0 -DskipTests clean package

# Apache Hadoop 2.4.X or 2.5.X
./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.4 -Dhadoop.version=2.4.0 -DskipTests clean package

# Apache Hadoop 2.6.X
./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.6 -Dhadoop.version=2.6.0 -DskipTests clean package

# Apache Hadoop 2.7.X and later
./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.7 -Dhadoop.version=2.7.0 -DskipTests clean package

# Different versions of HDFS and YARN.
./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Dhadoop.version=2.3.0 -Dyarn.version=2.2.0 -DskipTests clean package

Building With Hive and JDBC Support

To enable Hive integration for Spark SQL along with its JDBC server and CLI, add the -Phive and Phive-thriftserver profiles to your existing build options. By default Spark will build with Hive 1.2.1 bindings.

# Apache Hadoop 2.4.X with Hive 1.2.1 support
./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.4 -Dhadoop.version=2.4.0 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver -DskipTests clean package

Packaging without Hadoop Dependencies for YARN

The assembly directory produced by mvn package will, by default, include all of Spark’s dependencies, including Hadoop and some of its ecosystem projects. On YARN deployments, this causes multiple versions of these to appear on executor classpaths: the version packaged in the Spark assembly and the version on each node, included with yarn.application.classpath. The hadoop-provided profile builds the assembly without including Hadoop-ecosystem projects, like ZooKeeper and Hadoop itself.

Building for Scala 2.10

To produce a Spark package compiled with Scala 2.10, use the -Dscala-2.10 property:

./dev/change-scala-version.sh 2.10
./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.4 -Dscala-2.10 -DskipTests clean package

Building submodules individually

It’s possible to build Spark sub-modules using the mvn -pl option.

For instance, you can build the Spark Streaming module using:

./build/mvn -pl :spark-streaming_2.11 clean install

where spark-streaming_2.11 is the artifactId as defined in streaming/pom.xml file.

Continuous Compilation

We use the scala-maven-plugin which supports incremental and continuous compilation. E.g.

./build/mvn scala:cc

should run continuous compilation (i.e. wait for changes). However, this has not been tested extensively. A couple of gotchas to note:

it only scans the paths src/main and src/test (see docs), so it will only work from within certain submodules that have that structure.
you’ll typically need to run mvn install from the project root for compilation within specific submodules to work; this is because submodules that depend on other submodules do so via the spark-parent module).

Thus, the full flow for running continuous-compilation of the core submodule may look more like:

$ ./build/mvn install
$ cd core
$ ../build/mvn scala:cc

Speeding up Compilation with Zinc

Zinc is a long-running server version of SBT’s incremental compiler. When run locally as a background process, it speeds up builds of Scala-based projects like Spark. Developers who regularly recompile Spark with Maven will be the most interested in Zinc. The project site gives instructions for building and running zinc; OS X users can install it using brew install zinc.

If using the build/mvn package zinc will automatically be downloaded and leveraged for all builds. This process will auto-start after the first time build/mvn is called and bind to port 3030 unless the ZINC_PORT environment variable is set. The zinc process can subsequently be shut down at any time by running build/zinc-<version>/bin/zinc -shutdown and will automatically restart whenever build/mvn is called.

Building with SBT

Maven is the official build tool recommended for packaging Spark, and is the build of reference. But SBT is supported for day-to-day development since it can provide much faster iterative compilation. More advanced developers may wish to use SBT.

The SBT build is derived from the Maven POM files, and so the same Maven profiles and variables can be set to control the SBT build. For example:

./build/sbt -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 package

To avoid the overhead of launching sbt each time you need to re-compile, you can launch sbt in interactive mode by running build/sbt, and then run all build commands at the command prompt. For more recommendations on reducing build time, refer to the wiki page.

Encrypted Filesystems

When building on an encrypted filesystem (if your home directory is encrypted, for example), then the Spark build might fail with a “Filename too long” error. As a workaround, add the following in the configuration args of the scala-maven-plugin in the project pom.xml:

<arg>-Xmax-classfile-name</arg>
<arg>128</arg>

and in project/SparkBuild.scala add:

scalacOptions in Compile ++= Seq("-Xmax-classfile-name", "128"),

to the sharedSettings val. See also this PR if you are unsure of where to add these lines.

IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse

For help in setting up IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse for Spark development, and troubleshooting, refer to the wiki page for IDE setup.

Running Tests

Tests are run by default via the ScalaTest Maven plugin.

Some of the tests require Spark to be packaged first, so always run mvn package with -DskipTests the first time. The following is an example of a correct (build, test) sequence:

./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -DskipTests -Phive -Phive-thriftserver clean package
./build/mvn -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver test

The ScalaTest plugin also supports running only a specific Scala test suite as follows:

./build/mvn -P... -Dtest=none -DwildcardSuites=org.apache.spark.repl.ReplSuite test
./build/mvn -P... -Dtest=none -DwildcardSuites=org.apache.spark.repl.* test

or a Java test:

./build/mvn test -P... -DwildcardSuites=none -Dtest=org.apache.spark.streaming.JavaAPISuite

Testing with SBT

Some of the tests require Spark to be packaged first, so always run build/sbt package the first time. The following is an example of a correct (build, test) sequence:

./build/sbt -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver package
./build/sbt -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver test

To run only a specific test suite as follows:

./build/sbt -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver "test-only org.apache.spark.repl.ReplSuite"
./build/sbt -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver "test-only org.apache.spark.repl.*"

To run test suites of a specific sub project as follows:

./build/sbt -Pyarn -Phadoop-2.3 -Phive -Phive-thriftserver core/test

Running Java 8 Test Suites

Running only Java 8 tests and nothing else.

./build/mvn install -DskipTests
./build/mvn -pl :java8-tests_2.11 test

./build/sbt java8-tests/test

Java 8 tests are automatically enabled when a Java 8 JDK is detected. If you have JDK 8 installed but it is not the system default, you can set JAVA_HOME to point to JDK 8 before running the tests.

PySpark Tests with Maven

If you are building PySpark and wish to run the PySpark tests you will need to build Spark with Hive support.

./build/mvn -DskipTests clean package -Phive
./python/run-tests

The run-tests script also can be limited to a specific Python version or a specific module

./python/run-tests --python-executables=python --modules=pyspark-sql

Note: You can also run Python tests with an sbt build, provided you build Spark with Hive support.

Running R Tests

To run the SparkR tests you will need to install the R package testthat (run install.packages(testthat) from R shell). You can run just the SparkR tests using the command:

./R/run-tests.sh

Running Docker-based Integration Test Suites

In order to run Docker integration tests, you have to install the docker engine on your box. The instructions for installation can be found at the Docker site. Once installed, the docker service needs to be started, if not already running. On Linux, this can be done by sudo service docker start.

./build/mvn install -DskipTests
./build/mvn -Pdocker-integration-tests -pl :spark-docker-integration-tests_2.11

./build/sbt docker-integration-tests/test