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diff --git a/‎core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/python/PythonHadoopUtil.scala‎
Lines changed: 70 additions & 12 deletions b/‎core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/api/python/PythonHadoopUtil.scala‎
Lines changed: 70 additions & 12 deletions
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
 
 package org.apache.spark.api.python
 
+import org.apache.spark.broadcast.Broadcast
 import org.apache.spark.rdd.RDD
-import org.apache.spark.Logging
+import org.apache.spark.{Logging, SerializableWritable, SparkException}
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
 import org.apache.hadoop.io._
 import scala.util.{Failure, Success, Try}
@@ -31,13 +32,14 @@ import org.apache.spark.annotation.Experimental
  * transformation code by overriding the convert method.
  */
 @Experimental
-trait Converter[T, U] extends Serializable {
+trait Converter[T, + U] extends Serializable {
   def convert(obj: T): U
 }
 
 private[python] object Converter extends Logging {
 
-  def getInstance(converterClass: Option[String]): Converter[Any, Any] = {
+  def getInstance(converterClass: Option[String],
+                  defaultConverter: Converter[Any, Any]): Converter[Any, Any] = {
     converterClass.map { cc =>
       Try {
         val c = Class.forName(cc).newInstance().asInstanceOf[Converter[Any, Any]]
@@ -49,15 +51,17 @@ private[python] object Converter extends Logging {
           logError(s"Failed to load converter: $cc")
           throw err
       }
-    }.getOrElse { new DefaultConverter }
+    }.getOrElse { defaultConverter }
   }
 }
 
 /**
  * A converter that handles conversion of common [[org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable]] objects.
  * Other objects are passed through without conversion.
  */
-private[python] class DefaultConverter extends Converter[Any, Any] {
+private[python] class WritableToJavaConverter(
+    conf: Broadcast[SerializableWritable[Configuration]],
+    batchSize: Int) extends Converter[Any, Any] {
 
   /**
    * Converts a [[org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable]] to the underlying primitive, String or
@@ -72,17 +76,30 @@ private[python] class DefaultConverter extends Converter[Any, Any] {
       case fw: FloatWritable => fw.get()
       case t: Text => t.toString
       case bw: BooleanWritable => bw.get()
-      case byw: BytesWritable => byw.getBytes
+      case byw: BytesWritable =>
+        val bytes = new Array[Byte](byw.getLength)
+        System.arraycopy(byw.getBytes(), 0, bytes, 0, byw.getLength)
+        bytes
       case n: NullWritable => null
-      case aw: ArrayWritable => aw.get().map(convertWritable(_))
-      case mw: MapWritable => mapAsJavaMap(mw.map { case (k, v) =>
-        (convertWritable(k), convertWritable(v))
-      }.toMap)
+      case aw: ArrayWritable =>
+        // Due to erasure, all arrays appear as Object[] and they get pickled to Python tuples.
+        // Since we can't determine element types for empty arrays, we will not attempt to
+        // convert to primitive arrays (which get pickled to Python arrays). Users may want
+        // write custom converters for arrays if they know the element types a priori.
+        aw.get().map(convertWritable(_))
+      case mw: MapWritable =>
+        val map = new java.util.HashMap[Any, Any]()
+        mw.foreach { case (k, v) =>
+          map.put(convertWritable(k), convertWritable(v))
+        }
+        map
+      case w: Writable =>
+        if (batchSize > 1) WritableUtils.clone(w, conf.value.value) else w
       case other => other
     }
   }
 
-  def convert(obj: Any): Any = {
+  override def convert(obj: Any): Any = {
     obj match {
       case writable: Writable =>
         convertWritable(writable)
@@ -92,6 +109,47 @@ private[python] class DefaultConverter extends Converter[Any, Any] {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * A converter that converts common types to [[org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable]]. Note that array
+ * types are not supported since the user needs to subclass [[org.apache.hadoop.io.ArrayWritable]]
+ * to set the type properly. See [[org.apache.spark.api.python.DoubleArrayWritable]] and
+ * [[org.apache.spark.api.python.DoubleArrayToWritableConverter]] for an example. They are used in
+ * PySpark RDD `saveAsNewAPIHadoopFile` doctest.
+ */
+private[python] class JavaToWritableConverter extends Converter[Any, Writable] {
+
+  /**
+   * Converts common data types to [[org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable]]. Note that array types are not
+   * supported out-of-the-box.
+   */
+  private def convertToWritable(obj: Any): Writable = {
+    import collection.JavaConversions._
+    obj match {
+      case i: java.lang.Integer => new IntWritable(i)
+      case d: java.lang.Double => new DoubleWritable(d)
+      case l: java.lang.Long => new LongWritable(l)
+      case f: java.lang.Float => new FloatWritable(f)
+      case s: java.lang.String => new Text(s)
+      case b: java.lang.Boolean => new BooleanWritable(b)
+      case aob: Array[Byte] => new BytesWritable(aob)
+      case null => NullWritable.get()
+      case map: java.util.Map[_, _] =>
+        val mapWritable = new MapWritable()
+        map.foreach { case (k, v) =>
+          mapWritable.put(convertToWritable(k), convertToWritable(v))
+        }
+        mapWritable
+      case other => throw new SparkException(
+        s"Data of type ${other.getClass.getName} cannot be used")
+    }
+  }
+
+  override def convert(obj: Any): Writable = obj match {
+    case writable: Writable => writable
+    case other => convertToWritable(other)
+  }
+}
+
 /** Utilities for working with Python objects <-> Hadoop-related objects */
 private[python] object PythonHadoopUtil {
 
@@ -118,7 +176,7 @@ private[python] object PythonHadoopUtil {
 
   /**
    * Converts an RDD of key-value pairs, where key and/or value could be instances of
-   * [[org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable]], into an RDD[(K, V)]
+   * [[org.apache.hadoop.io.Writable]], into an RDD of base types, or vice versa.
    */
   def convertRDD[K, V](rdd: RDD[(K, V)],
                        keyConverter: Converter[Any, Any],