yeskarthik edited a comment on pull request #35548:
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/35548#issuecomment-1050219393


   @HeartSaVioR thank you for your response. 
   
   - I understand the concern of sending the response as store objects which 
blocks the evolution of their structures between versions. However, these 
objects are also part of the existing programmatic monitoring APIs as mentioned 
here - 
https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/structured-streaming-programming-guide.html#reading-metrics-interactively.
 Wouldn't the versioning issue also affect those APIs? Do the contracts apply 
only for REST APIs and not metrics objects or programmatic API responses?
   - On the other hand, what if we create another object with the same 
structure so that we do not need to break the API response objects but can 
evolve the `StreamingQueryData` / `StreamingQueryProcess`
   - We did have similar APIs for DStreams like `/streaming/statistics`, 
`/streaming/receivers` etc. How was this problem handled there?
   - I'm fine with marking this as Developer API - can you show me a precedence 
of this for a REST API or did you mean we just mark the objects?
   - There are multiple use cases for these APIs - here are some that I can 
think of:
     1. First one is real-time monitoring, these APIs can be used to build more 
sophisticated UIs than the one that is present under  the Structured Streaming 
tab. For example, we can build a live version of it that plots the data on the 
client side by frequent refreshes without reloading the page.
     2. The other is to show the plot similar graphs about streaming metrics 
for a specific streaming query in 'Notebooks' under the query cell to enhance 
the experience.
     3. The simplest of use case is to detect if a job contains streaming code 
which might be a variable in optimizing usage of resources for long running 
applications.
     4. Achieving the same via DropWizard / other alternatives would add the 
overhead of building one more REST layer and we lose the real-time experience.


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