.. Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at .. http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. ==================== Legacy Entry Points ==================== .. currentmodule:: pyspark.sql :class:`SQLContext` was the primary entry point for Spark SQL in Spark 1.x. As of Spark 2.0, it has been replaced by :class:`SparkSession`. These classes are retained for backward compatibility only. .. deprecated:: 3.0.0 Use :func:`SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate` instead. .. note:: Under Spark Connect, :meth:`SQLContext.registerJavaFunction` and the whole :class:`HiveContext` are not supported and raise :class:`~pyspark.errors.PySparkNotImplementedError`, since they rely on a JVM ``SparkContext`` that does not exist in Connect mode. SQLContext ---------- .. autosummary:: :toctree: api/ SQLContext .. autosummary:: :toctree: api/ SQLContext.getOrCreate SQLContext.newSession SQLContext.setConf SQLContext.getConf SQLContext.udf SQLContext.udtf SQLContext.range SQLContext.registerFunction SQLContext.registerJavaFunction SQLContext.createDataFrame SQLContext.registerDataFrameAsTable SQLContext.dropTempTable SQLContext.createExternalTable SQLContext.sql SQLContext.table SQLContext.tables SQLContext.tableNames SQLContext.cacheTable SQLContext.uncacheTable SQLContext.clearCache SQLContext.read SQLContext.readStream SQLContext.streams HiveContext ----------- .. autosummary:: :toctree: api/ HiveContext