[SPARK-11780][SQL] Add type aliases backwards compatibility

[maropu]

Rework from #9935 because it's stale.

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Test build #48914 has finished for PR 10635 at commit c51d95b.

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Test build #48925 has finished for PR 10635 at commit fa45a41.

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[maropu]

retest this please

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Test build #48988 has finished for PR 10635 at commit 8bdd481.

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[marmbrus]

Does this actually let you use one source to compile against both versions of Spark?

[maropu]

@marmbrus @smola ISTM users can compile the source codes that only have compatibility issues of these types.

[marmbrus]

I could be missing something, but it seems like since you had to manually exclude things here to make it compile, users are going to run into problems. Can you actually make a program that uses these types and try and see if you can make it work with both Spark 1.5 and Spark 1.6?

[maropu]

@marmbrus okay and I'll try it in a day.

[maropu]

@marmbrus checked;
Codes below can be compiled in v1.5.2 though, they cannot be compile in v.1.6.0.
https://github.com/maropu/spark-compat-test/blob/master/src/test/scala/test/SparkCompatTestSuite.scala

Also, I checked that this pr resolved this issue, that is, we can compile them in both versions.

[maropu]

I found that aggregation functions such as Max and Min in org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.aggregate has the same issue because the ticket in SPARK-11505 splits these functions into pieces in each file.

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Test build #49355 has finished for PR 10635 at commit cc971a7.

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• This patch adds no public classes.

[marmbrus]

I'm confused. The repo you link to compiles fine against Spark 1.6.0.

> compile
[info] Updating {file:/Users/marmbrus/workspace/spark-compat-test/}spark-compat-test...
[info] Resolving org.fusesource.jansi#jansi;1.4 ...
[info] Done updating.
[warn] Scala version was updated by one of library dependencies:
[warn]  * org.scala-lang:scala-library:(2.10.4, 2.10.0) -> 2.10.5
[warn] To force scalaVersion, add the following:
[warn]  ivyScala := ivyScala.value map { _.copy(overrideScalaVersion = true) }
[warn] Run 'evicted' to see detailed eviction warnings
[info] Compiling 1 Scala source to /Users/marmbrus/workspace/spark-compat-test/target/scala-2.10/classes...
[warn] there were 3 deprecation warning(s); re-run with -deprecation for details
[warn] one warning found

[maropu]

Sorry that you get confused.
The codes in the link can be compiled because lib/ has /spark-catalyst_2.10-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar modified by this patch.
So, you need to say commands below;

$git clone https://github.com/maropu/spark-compat-test.git
$cd spark-compat-test/
$rm lib/spark-catalyst_2.10-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
$./bin/sbt test
...
[info] Compiling 1 Scala source to /Users/maropu/IdeaProjects/temps/spark-compat-test/target/scala-2.10/classes...
[info] Compiling 1 Scala source to /Users/maropu/IdeaProjects/temps/spark-compat-test/target/scala-2.10/test-classes...
[error] /Users/maropu/IdeaProjects/temps/spark-compat-test/src/test/scala/test/SparkCompatTestSuite.scala:9: not found: type GenericArrayData
[error]     val keyArray = new GenericArrayData(Array(1, 2, 3))
[error]                        ^
[error] /Users/maropu/IdeaProjects/temps/spark-compat-test/src/test/scala/test/SparkCompatTestSuite.scala:10: not found: type GenericArrayData
[error]     val valArray = new GenericArrayData(Array(0, 0, 0))
[error]                        ^
[error] /Users/maropu/IdeaProjects/temps/spark-compat-test/src/test/scala/test/SparkCompatTestSuite.scala:11: not found: type ArrayBasedMapData
[error]     val mapData = new ArrayBasedMapData(keyArray, valArray)
[error]                       ^
[error] three errors found
[error] (test:compileIncremental) Compilation failed
[error] Total time: 9 s, completed Jan 14, 2016 2:26:05 PM

[maropu]

@marmbrus ping

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Test build #49876 has finished for PR 10635 at commit 57a57fc.

• This patch passes all tests.
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• This patch adds no public classes.

[marmbrus]

Okay, this seems good, but can you reopen it against branch-1.6? I don't think that we want to continue to offer compatibility once the major version changes in 2.0.

[maropu]

@marmbrus Okay, I'll do that.