Getting the largest value in sorted rdd using scala/spark

Question

I have the logs like:

ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
...
ERROR: SVN Problem
..
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'
ERROR: Error fetching remote repo 'origin'

I wrote the below function to sort the errors, based on number of occurence of errors:

val getErrorLines=lines.filter(value=>value.startsWith("ERROR"))
val mappedErrors=getErrorLines.map((s => {
val substrings = s.split(":")
(substrings(1), substrings(0))
})).map(value=>(value,1)).reduceByKey(_+_).sortBy(_._2, false, 1)

I am able to get the sorted list of errors based on the number of occurrence of the error:

(( Error fetching remote repo 'origin',ERROR),5)
(( SVN Problem,ERROR),1)

But i want only the highest occurring error which is :

(( Error fetching remote repo 'origin',ERROR),5)

I piped the top() function on the sort , but it still gave me :

(( SVN Problem,ERROR),1)

Is there any other function which would give me the largest occurance based on the value?

Answer 1

The simplest solutions is to swap

val substrings = sc.parallelize(Seq(
  (("Error fetching remote repo 'origin'", "ERROR"), 5),
  (("SVN Problem", "ERROR"), 1)
))

substrings.map(_.swap).top(1)
// Array[(Int, (String, String))] = Array((5,(Error fetching remote repo 'origin',ERROR)))

Answer 2

You can use the max method on RDD

If the default result is not ok for your use-case, you can send an ordering function. I think that in your case, since the highest is the one with the highest integer in the second part of the tuple this will work fine:

rdd.max()(Ordering[Int].on(x=>x._2))

Quick test here:

Answer 3

I would use first :

val mostFrequentError = 
s.split(":")(substrings(1), substrings(0))}))
.map(value=>(value,1))
.reduceByKey(_+_)
.sortBy(_._2, false, 1)
.first()