[SPARK-7073] Clean up Python data type hierarchy

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Target Version/s: 1.5.0
• Sprint: Spark 1.5 doc/QA sprint
• Assignee: Davies Liu
• Reporter: Reynold Xin
• Created: 23/Apr/15 06:56
• Updated: 16/May/15 03:05
• Resolved: 16/May/15 03:05

Description

We recently removed PrimitiveType in Scala, but in Python we still have that (internal) concept. We should revisit and clean those as well.

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #6206 (davies)