[SPARK-42732] Support spark connect session getActiveSession

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.5.0
• Component/s: Connect, PySpark
• Assignee: Weichen Xu
• Reporter: Weichen Xu
• Created: 09/Mar/23 11:57
• Updated: 14/Mar/23 10:33
• Resolved: 14/Mar/23 10:33

Description

Support spark connect session getActiveSession method.

Spark connect ML needs this API to get active session in some cases (e.g. fetching model attributes from server side).

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #40353 (WeichenXu123)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #40353 (WeichenXu123)