Github user marmbrus commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/8499#issuecomment-136041166 This is a pretty common technique throughout the codebase and broken compatibility is pretty annoying for library writers, so I'd be inclined to include this in branch-1.5 (before the next RC is cut).
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