Access the Spark API

spark-api

Description

Access the commonly-used Spark objects associated with a Spark instance. These objects provide access to different facets of the Spark API.

Usage

spark_context(sc)

java_context(sc)

hive_context(sc)

spark_session(sc)

Arguments

Arguments Description
sc A spark_connection.

Details

The Scala API documentation is useful for discovering what methods are available for each of these objects. Use invoke to call methods on these objects.

Spark Context

The main entry point for Spark functionality. The Spark Context represents the connection to a Spark cluster, and can be used to create RDDs, accumulators and broadcast variables on that cluster.