Josh Rosen created SPARK-4180:
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Summary: SparkContext constructor should throw exception if
another SparkContext is already running
Key: SPARK-4180
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-4180
Project: Spark
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Spark Core
Reporter: Josh Rosen
Priority: Blocker
Spark does not currently support multiple concurrently-running SparkContexts in
the same JVM (see SPARK-2243). Therefore, SparkContext's constructor should
throw an exception if there is an active SparkContext that has not been shut
down via {{stop()}}.
PySpark already does this, but the Scala SparkContext should do the same thing.
The current behavior with multiple active contexts is unspecified / not
understood and it may be the source of confusing errors (see SPARK-4080, for
example).
This should be pretty easy to add: just add a {{activeSparkContext}} field to
the SparkContext companion object and {{synchronize}} on it in the constructor
and {{stop()}} methods; see PySpark's {{context.py}} file for an example of
this approach.
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