[SPARK-25986] Banning throw new Errors

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Build
• Target Version/s: 3.0.0

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Release notes text:

Certain methods in Spark MLlib would throw NotImplementedError or UnknownError on illegal input. These have been changed to more standard UnsupportedOperationException and IllegalArgumentException.

• Assignee: Yuanjian Li
• Reporter: Xiao Li
• Created: 09/Nov/18 00:46
• Updated: 08/Jun/20 17:32
• Resolved: 14/Nov/18 21:05

Description

Adding a linter rule to ban the construction of new Errors and then make sure that we throw the correct exceptions. See the PR https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/22969

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #22989 (xuanyuanking)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #22989 (xuanyuanking)