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Song Jun updated SPARK-18742:
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    Description: 
After SPARK-12588 Remove HTTPBroadcast [1], the one and only
implementation of BroadcastFactory is TorrentBroadcastFactory. however
the scaladoc says [2]:

/**
 * An interface for all the broadcast implementations in Spark (to allow
 * multiple broadcast implementations). SparkContext uses a user-specified
 * BroadcastFactory implementation to instantiate a particular broadcast for the
 * entire Spark job.
 */

so we should modify the comment that SparkContext will not use a  
user-specified BroadcastFactory implementation

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12588
[2] 
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/broadcast/BroadcastFactory.scala#L25-L30

  was:
After SPARK-12588 Remove HTTPBroadcast [1], the one and only
implementation of BroadcastFactory is TorrentBroadcastFactory. No code
in Spark 2 uses BroadcastFactory (but TorrentBroadcastFactory) however
the scaladoc says [2]:

/**
 * An interface for all the broadcast implementations in Spark (to allow
 * multiple broadcast implementations). SparkContext uses a user-specified
 * BroadcastFactory implementation to instantiate a particular broadcast for the
 * entire Spark job.
 */

which is not correct since there is no way to plug in a custom
user-specified BroadcastFactory.

It is better to readd spark.broadcast.factory for user-defined BroadcastFactory
 
[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12588
[2] 
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/broadcast/BroadcastFactory.scala#L25-L30


> Clarify that user-defined BroadcastFactory is not supported
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-18742
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-18742
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Documentation
>            Reporter: Song Jun
>            Priority: Trivial
>
> After SPARK-12588 Remove HTTPBroadcast [1], the one and only
> implementation of BroadcastFactory is TorrentBroadcastFactory. however
> the scaladoc says [2]:
> /**
>  * An interface for all the broadcast implementations in Spark (to allow
>  * multiple broadcast implementations). SparkContext uses a user-specified
>  * BroadcastFactory implementation to instantiate a particular broadcast for 
> the
>  * entire Spark job.
>  */
> so we should modify the comment that SparkContext will not use a  
> user-specified BroadcastFactory implementation
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-12588
> [2] 
> https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/broadcast/BroadcastFactory.scala#L25-L30



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