[SPARK-10570] Add Spark version endpoint to standalone JSON API

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Spark Core, Web UI
• Labels: api
• Target Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Jakob Odersky
• Reporter: Matt Cheah
• Created: 11/Sep/15 20:32
• Updated: 29/Mar/16 18:10
• Resolved: 29/Mar/16 18:10

Description

Let's have an ability to navigate to /api/vX/version to get the Spark version running on the cluster.

The use case I had in mind is verifying that my Spark application is compatible with the version of the cluster that my user has installed. I want to do this without starting a SparkContext and having the context initialization fail.

This is a strictly additive change, so I think it can just be added to the v1 API.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #10760 (jodersky)