[SPARK-9180] Accept --name option in spark-submit

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: Spark Shell
• Assignee: Kenichi Maehashi
• Reporter: Kenichi Maehashi
• Created: 19/Jul/15 15:09
• Updated: 23/Jul/15 05:36
• Resolved: 22/Jul/15 23:17

Description

Currently spark-shell command does not accept specifying its application name via --name option, as it is hard coded as "Spark shell" in org.apache.spark.repl.Main.
I think it's better if the app name is user configurable.
The major problem of using the default application name "Spark shell" is that Monitoring JSON API (http://<spark-shell-host>:4040/api/v1/applications/app-id/) cannot be used with spark-shell, as the application ID contains space character.

Issue Links

• is related to: SPARK-9270 Allow --name option in pyspark
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #7512 (kmaehashi)