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Posted to user@spark.apache.org by Sergey Zhemzhitsky <sz...@gmail.com> on 2017/06/27 12:47:11 UTC

What is the purpose of having RDD.context and RDD.sparkContext at the same time?

Hello spark gurus,

Could you please shed some light on what is the purpose of having two
identical functions in RDD,
RDD.context [1] and RDD.sparkContext [2].

RDD.context seems to be used more frequently across the source code.

[1]
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala#L1693
[2]
https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/rdd/RDD.scala#L146

Kind Regards,
Sergey