Patrick Wendell created SPARK-6703: -------------------------------------- Summary: Provide a way to discover existing SparkContext's Key: SPARK-6703 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-6703 Project: Spark Issue Type: New Feature Components: Spark Core Reporter: Patrick Wendell
Right now it is difficult to write a Spark application in a way that can be run independently and also be composed with other Spark applications in an environment such as the JobServer, notebook servers, etc where there is a shared SparkContext. It would be nice to have a way to write an application where you can "get or create" a SparkContext and have some standard type of synchronization point application authors can access. The most simple/surgical way I see to do this is to have an optional static SparkContext singleton that people can be retrieved as follows: {code} val sc = SparkContext.getOrCreate(conf = new SparkConf()) {code} And you could also have a setter where some outer framework/server can set it for use by multiple downstream applications. A more advanced version of this would have some named registry or something, but since we only support a single SparkContext in one JVM at this point anyways, this seems sufficient and much simpler. Another advanced option would be to allow plugging in some other notion of configuration you'd pass when retrieving an existing context. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@spark.apache.org