vanzin opened a new pull request #26170: [SPARK-29397][core] Extend plugin 
interface to include the driver.
URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/26170
 
 
   Spark 2.4 added the ability for executor plugins to be loaded into
   Spark (see SPARK-24918). That feature intentionally skipped the
   driver to keep changes small, and also because it is possible to
   load code into the Spark driver using listeners + configuration.
   
   But that is a bit awkward, because the listener interface does not
   provide hooks into a lot of Spark functionality. This change reworks
   the executor plugin interface to also extend to the driver.
   
   - there's a "SparkPlugin" main interface that provides APIs to
     load driver and executor components.
   - custom metric support (added in SPARK-28091) can be used by
     plugins to register metrics both in the driver process and in
     executors.
   - a communication channel now exists that allows the plugin's
     executor components to send messages to the plugin's driver
     component easily, using the existing Spark RPC system.
   
   The latter was a feature intentionally left out of the original
   plugin design (also because it didn't include a driver component).
   
   To avoid polluting the "org.apache.spark" namespace, I added the new
   interfaces to the "org.apache.spark.api" package, which seems like
   a better place in any case. The actual implementation is kept in
   an internal package.
   
   The change includes unit tests for the new interface and features,
   but I've also been running a custom plugin that extends the new
   API in real applications.
   

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