Got it! Thanks much!

Livy has some nice tests that are very helpful.

On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Marcelo Vanzin <[email protected]> wrote:

> That is probably because Livy supports Spark 1.6 and "SparkSession"
> does not exist in that version, so the code wouldn't compile
> otherwise.
>
> If you try to cast it to some other type, though, you'll get an
> exception at run time.
>
> On Sat, Dec 2, 2017 at 10:11 AM, kant kodali <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Why does jobContext.sparkSession() doesn't return a SparkSession Object
> > instead it returns a parametrized type?
> >
> > jobContext.sc(); //returns JavaSparkContext so this is good
> > jobContext.sqlContext();// returns SqlContext so this is good
> > jobContext.steamingContext(); // returns StreamingContext so this is good
> > jobContext.sparkSession(); // returns any parameterized type. why?
> >
> > since it returns a parametrized type I can assign it to anything I like
> that
> > wouldn't make any sense.
> >
> > Integer k = jobContext.sparkSession()
> >
> > or
> >
> > Long l = jobContext.sparkSession()
> >
> >
> >
> > Below is the livy interface
> >
> >
> > package org.apache.livy;
> >
> > import java.io.File;
> > import org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext;
> > import org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext;
> > import org.apache.spark.sql.hive.HiveContext;
> > import org.apache.spark.streaming.api.java.JavaStreamingContext;
> >
> > public interface JobContext {
> >     JavaSparkContext sc();
> >
> >     SQLContext sqlctx();
> >
> >     HiveContext hivectx();
> >
> >     JavaStreamingContext streamingctx();
> >
> >     void createStreamingContext(long var1);
> >
> >     void stopStreamingCtx();
> >
> >     File getLocalTmpDir();
> >
> >     <E> E sparkSession() throws Exception;
> > }
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Marcelo
>

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