[SPARK-14452] Explicit APIs in Scala for specifying encoders

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 2.0.0
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 07/Apr/16 05:49
• Updated: 08/Apr/16 01:17
• Resolved: 08/Apr/16 01:17

Description

The Scala Dataset public API currently only allows users to specify encoders through SQLContext.implicits. This is OK but sometimes people want to explicitly get encoders without a SQLContext (e.g. Aggregator implementations).

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #12232 (rxin)