Re: Data source aliasing

2015-07-30 Thread Joseph Batchik
s since many of these are >> third party packages. If the same name were registered twice I'm not sure >> what the best behavior would be. Ideally in my mind if the same shortname >> were registered twice we'd force the user to use a fully qualified name and >> say the

Data source aliasing

2015-07-30 Thread Joseph Batchik
Hi all, There are now starting to be a lot of data source packages for Spark. A annoyance I see is that I have to type in the full class name like: sqlContext.read.format("com.databricks.spark.avro").load(path). Spark internally has formats such as "parquet" and "jdbc" registered and it would be