From bf107f1e6522f9138d454b0723089c24626e775a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sandy <phalodi@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:33:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] [SPARK-16438] Add Asynchronous Actions documentation ## What changes were proposed in this pull request? Add Asynchronous Actions documentation inside action of programming guide ## How was this patch tested? check the documentation indentation and formatting with md preview. Author: sandy <phalodi@gmail.com> Closes #14104 from phalodi/SPARK-16438. --- docs/programming-guide.md | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/programming-guide.md b/docs/programming-guide.md index 3872aecff2..2bc49120a0 100644 --- a/docs/programming-guide.md +++ b/docs/programming-guide.md @@ -1101,6 +1101,9 @@ for details. </tr> </table> +The Spark RDD API also exposes asynchronous versions of some actions, like `foreachAsync` for `foreach`, which immediately return a `FutureAction` to the caller instead of blocking on completion of the action. This can be used to manage or wait for the asynchronous execution of the action. + + ### Shuffle operations Certain operations within Spark trigger an event known as the shuffle. The shuffle is Spark's -- GitLab