[SPARK-42657] Support to find and transfer client-side REPL classfiles to server as artifacts

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.5.0
• Component/s: Connect
• Epic Link: Spark Connect Scala Client - Basic
• Assignee: Venkata Sai Akhil Gudesa
• Reporter: Venkata Sai Akhil Gudesa
• Created: 02/Mar/23 22:43
• Updated: 18/Apr/23 13:10
• Resolved: 17/Apr/23 13:19

Description

To run UDFs which are defined on the client side REPL, we require a mechanism that can find the local REPL classfiles and then utilise the mechanism from https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-42653 to transfer them to the server as artifacts.  

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #40675 (vicennial)