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Josh Rosen updated SPARK-4180:
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    Description: 
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 the user error 
report in 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.

  was:
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.


> 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
>              Labels: starter
>
> 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 the user 
> error report in 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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