[SPARK-5946] Add Python API for Kafka direct stream

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: DStreams, PySpark
• Target Version/s: 1.4.0
• Assignee: Saisai Shao
• Reporter: Saisai Shao
• Created: 23/Feb/15 05:11
• Updated: 28/Apr/15 06:56
• Resolved: 28/Apr/15 06:56

Description

Add the Python API for Kafka direct stream. Currently only adds createDirectStream API, no createRDD API, since it needs some Python wraps of Java object, will improve this according to the comments.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #4723 (jerryshao)