You could set "spark.jars.packages" in `conf` field of session post API ( https://github.com/apache/incubator-livy/blob/master/docs/rest-api.md#post-sessions). This is equal to --package in spark-submit.
BTW you'd better ask livy question in u...@livy.incubator.apache.org. Thanks Jerry On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 8:11 AM, ayan guha <guha.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > I have a python program which I invoke as > > spark-submit --packages com.databricks:spark-avro_2.11:3.2.0 somefile.py > "2017-08-23 02:00:00" and it works.... > > Now I want to submit this file using Livy. I could work out most of the > stuff (like putting files to HDFS etc) but not able to understand how/where > to configure the "packages" switch.......Any help? > -- > Best Regards, > Ayan Guha >