[SPARK-19549] Allow providing reasons for stage/job cancelling

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: Spark Core
• Assignee: Ala Luszczak
• Reporter: Ala Luszczak
• Created: 10/Feb/17 14:59
• Updated: 10/Feb/17 20:10
• Resolved: 10/Feb/17 20:10

Description

Currently it is not possible to pass a cancellation reason to SparkContext.cancelStage() and SparkContext.cancelJob(). In many situations having such reason included in the exception message would be useful for the user.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #16887 (ala)