Saif Addin Ellafi created SPARK-17735: -----------------------------------------
Summary: Cannot call sqlContext inside udf Key: SPARK-17735 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-17735 Project: Spark Issue Type: Bug Components: Spark Core, SQL Affects Versions: 1.6.0 Environment: Linux Reporter: Saif Addin Ellafi Priority: Minor Hello, I know it is a strange use case but I just wanted to append is cache to hive tables and turned out into this def inCacheUdf = org.apache.spark.sql.functions.udf {name: String => sqlContext.isCached(name)} val ts = sqlContext.tables ts.withColumn("foo", inCacheUdf(ts.col("tableName"))).show .. will throw a Null Pointer Exception. I am not sure, since in my program I was getting: A master url must be set in your configuration or NullPointer a getConf as well. Thoughts? -- 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