[SPARK-4397] Reorganize 'implicit's to improve the API convenience

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
• Component/s: Spark Core
• Assignee: Shixiong Zhu
• Reporter: Shixiong Zhu
• Created: 14/Nov/14 07:41
• Updated: 18/May/15 12:57
• Resolved: 21/Nov/14 18:07

Description

As I said here, http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spark-dev/201411.mbox/%3CCAPn6-YTeUwGqvGady=vUjX=[e-mail]%3E
many people asked how to convert a RDD to a PairRDDFunctions.

If we can reorganize the `implicit`s properly, the API will more convenient without importing SparkContext._ explicitly.

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-4608 Reorganize StreamingContext implicit to improve API convenience
• is related to: SPARK-7704 Updating Programming Guides per SPARK-4397
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #3262 (zsxwing)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #3530 (zsxwing)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #3573 (zsxwing)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #3580 (rxin)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #6234 (daisukebe)