[SPARK-35810] Deprecate ps.broadcast API

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.2.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.0
• Component/s: PySpark
• Assignee: Haejoon Lee
• Reporter: Haejoon Lee
• Created: 18/Jun/21 04:14
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:11
• Resolved: 19/Jul/21 01:46

Description

We have ps.broadcast in pandas API on Spark, but it's duplicated with DataFrame.spark.hint when using this API with "broadcast".

So, we'd better deprecate this and broadcast function in PySpark as well.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #33379 (itholic)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #33479 (itholic)