[SPARK-5476] SQLContext.createDataFrame shouldn't be an implicit function

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.3.0
• Assignee: Reynold Xin
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 29/Jan/15 07:58
• Updated: 02/Feb/15 03:09
• Resolved: 02/Feb/15 03:09

Description

It is sort of strange to ask users to import sqlContext._ or sqlContext.createDataFrame.

The proposal here is to ask users to define an implicit val for SQLContext, and then dsl package object should include an implicit function that converts an RDD[Product] to a DataFrame.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #4265 (rxin)