Yes, call startWithContext from the spark shell: https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2.scala#L56
On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 7:10 AM, <saif.a.ell...@wellsfargo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to load a spark-shell, in which we do any number of > operations in a dataframe, then register it as a temporary table and get to > see it through thriftserver? > ps. or even better, submit a full job and store the dataframe in > thriftserver in-memory before the job completes. > > I have been trying this without success, bee does not see the dataframes > of the spark-shell’s hive context. > If any of you confirms this possibility, I will try further ahead. So far > it only seems to be able to manually read from persistent tables. > > Thanks for any insights, > Saif > >