[SPARK-12588] Remove HTTPBroadcast

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Spark Core
• Labels: releasenotes
• Target Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Josh Rosen
• Created: 30/Dec/15 23:00
• Updated: 31/Dec/15 02:07
• Resolved: 31/Dec/15 02:07

Description

We switched to TorrentBroadcast in Spark 1.1, and HttpBroadcast has been undocumented since then. It's time to remove it in Spark 2.0.For Spark 2.0, we should remove HTTPBroadcast and standardize on TorrentBroadcast as the only broadcast implementation.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #10531 (rxin)