[SPARK-25560] Allow Function Injection in SparkSessionExtensions

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Spark Core, SQL
• Assignee: Russell Spitzer
• Reporter: Russell Spitzer
• Created: 27/Sep/18 22:00
• Updated: 19/Oct/18 08:42
• Resolved: 19/Oct/18 08:42

Description

Currently there is no way to add a set of external functions to all sessions made by users. We could add a small extension to SparkSessionExtensions which would allow this to be done.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #22576 (RussellSpitzer)