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[SPARK-19148][SQL] do not expose the external table concept in Catalog #16528

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27 changes: 24 additions & 3 deletions python/pyspark/sql/catalog.py
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# limitations under the License.
#

import warnings
from collections import namedtuple

from pyspark import since
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@since(2.0)
def createExternalTable(self, tableName, path=None, source=None, schema=None, **options):
"""Creates an external table based on the dataset in a data source.
"""Creates a table based on the dataset in a data source.

It returns the DataFrame associated with the external table.

The data source is specified by the ``source`` and a set of ``options``.
If ``source`` is not specified, the default data source configured by
``spark.sql.sources.default`` will be used.

Optionally, a schema can be provided as the schema of the returned :class:`DataFrame` and
created external table.

:return: :class:`DataFrame`
"""
warnings.warn(
"createExternalTable is deprecated since Spark 2.2, please use createTable instead.",
DeprecationWarning)
return self.createTable(tableName, path, source, schema, **options)
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**options -> options?

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it's python syntax, like what we do in scala: func(options: _*)

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Yeah. Got it. I also manually tried it in pyspark. It works fine.


@since(2.2)
def createTable(self, tableName, path=None, source=None, schema=None, **options):
"""Creates a table based on the dataset in a data source.

It returns the DataFrame associated with the external table.

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source = self._sparkSession.conf.get(
"spark.sql.sources.default", "org.apache.spark.sql.parquet")
if schema is None:
df = self._jcatalog.createExternalTable(tableName, source, options)
df = self._jcatalog.createTable(tableName, source, options)
else:
if not isinstance(schema, StructType):
raise TypeError("schema should be StructType")
scala_datatype = self._jsparkSession.parseDataType(schema.json())
df = self._jcatalog.createExternalTable(tableName, source, scala_datatype, options)
df = self._jcatalog.createTable(tableName, source, scala_datatype, options)
return DataFrame(df, self._sparkSession._wrapped)

@since(2.0)
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