Spark的LeftOuterJoin详解

一、RDD的LeftOuterJoin操作
1.1 RDD的LeftOuterJoin方法定义 在Spark中，LeftOutJoin的方法源码定义如下：

/**   * Perform a left outer join of `this` and `other`. For each element (k, v) in `this`, the   * resulting RDD will either contain all pairs (k, (v, Some(w))) for w in `other`, or the   * pair (k, (v, None)) if no elements in `other` have key k. Hash-partitions the output   * using the existing partitioner/parallelism level.   */ 
 def leftOuterJoin[W](other: RDD[(K, W)]): RDD[(K, (V, Option[W]))] = self.withScope {
       leftOuterJoin(other, defaultPartitioner(self, other))  }   

/**   * Perform a left outer join of `this` and `other`. For each element (k, v) in `this`, the   * resulting RDD will either contain all pairs (k, (v, Some(w))) for w in `other`, or the   * pair (k, (v, None)) if no elements in `other` have key k. Hash-partitions the output   * into `numPartitions` partitions.   */  
def leftOuterJoin[W](      other: RDD[(K, W)],      numPartitions: Int): RDD[(K, (V, Option[W]))] = self.withScope {
       leftOuterJoin(other, new HashPartitioner</