[SPARK-13807] De-duplicate `Python*Helper` instantiation code in PySpark streaming

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: DStreams, PySpark
• Target Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Josh Rosen
• Reporter: Josh Rosen
• Created: 11/Mar/16 01:05
• Updated: 18/Apr/16 17:24
• Resolved: 18/Apr/16 17:24

Description

PySpark streaming duplicates a bunch of code related to loading JVM helper classes (just grep for java.lang.Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader in the `python/` directory to see this). We should clean up this duplication.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #11641 (JoshRosen)