Github user ahirreddy commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/363#discussion_r11465774
--- Diff: python/pyspark/java_gateway.py ---
@@ -64,5 +64,9 @@ def run(self):
java_import(gateway.jvm, "org.apache.spark.api.java.*")
java_import(gateway.jvm, "org.apache.spark.api.python.*")
java_import(gateway.jvm, "org.apache.spark.mllib.api.python.*")
+ java_import(gateway.jvm, "org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext")
+ java_import(gateway.jvm, "org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext")
+ java_import(gateway.jvm, "org.apache.spark.sql.hive.LocalHiveContext")
+ java_import(gateway.jvm, "org.apache.spark.sql.hive.TestHiveContext")
--- End diff --
This will still work, but it will throw a non-fatal exception when the user
tries to use a HiveContext without hive built. I'll catch that and present a
better error message that indicates that the user would need to build spark
with hive with SPARK_HIVE=true.
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