[SPARK-3470] Have JavaSparkContext implement Closeable/AutoCloseable

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.2.0
• Component/s: Spark Core
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Shay Rojansky
• Created: 10/Sep/14 06:47
• Updated: 15/Sep/14 14:34
• Resolved: 15/Sep/14 14:34

Description

After discussion in SPARK-2972, it seems like a good idea to allow Java developers to use Java 7 automatic resource management with JavaSparkContext, like so:

try (JavaSparkContext ctx = new JavaSparkContext(...)) {
   return br.readLine();
}

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-3471 Automatic resource manager for SparkContext in Scala?
• relates to: SPARK-3458 enable use of python's "with" statements for SparkContext management
• relates to: SPARK-1477 Add the lifecycle interface
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #2346 (srowen)