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+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+// scalastyle:off println
+package org.apache.spark.examples
+
+import scala.concurrent.ExecutionContext.Implicits.global
+
+import org.apache.spark.{SparkConf, SparkContext}
+
+
+/**
+  * Asynchronous Actions.
+  *
+  * This is an example how to use Asynchronous Actions. For more conventional use,
+  * please refer to org.apache.spark.rdd.AsyncRDDActions
+  */
+
+object SparkAsync {
+  def main(args: Array[String]) {
+    val conf = new SparkConf().setAppName("spark_async").set("spark.scheduler.mode", "FAIR")
+    val sc = new SparkContext(conf)
+    val rdd = sc.parallelize(List(32, 34, 2, 3, 4, 54, 3), 4).cache()
+    rdd.collectAsync().map { x => x.map { x => println("Items in the list:" + x) } }
+    val rddCount = sc.parallelize(List(434, 3, 2, 43, 45, 3, 2), 4)
+    rddCount.countAsync().map { x => println("Number of items in the list: " + x) }
+    println("synchronous count" + rdd.count())
+    sc.stop()
+  }
+}
+// scalastyle:on println