Hey Spark developers, Is there a good reason for JsonRDD being a Scala object as opposed to class? Seems most other RDDs are classes, and can be extended.
The reason I'm asking is that there is a problem with Hive interoperability with JSON DataFrames where jsonFile generates case sensitive schema, while Hive expects case insensitive and fails with an exception during saveAsTable if there are two columns with the same name in different case. I'm trying to resolve the problem, but that requires me to extend JsonRDD, which I can't do. Other RDDs are subclass friendly, why is JsonRDD different? Dan
