Spark 4.0 / DBR 14.2+ - bleeding edge changes

[chris-twiner]

Per my comment on #755 DBR 14.2, 4.0 and likely all later versions includes SPARK-44913 StaticInvoke changes.

Whilst this hasn't yet been backported to 3.5 branch it could well end up there.

I'm happy to fork and publish a bleeding edge / non-standard frameless if needed but I also wonder if a compat layer as a separate swappable jar is the best route similar to #300 for example.

What is the collective preferred route to fixing / working around this?

[pomadchin]

Hmm, swappable jar?

I'm super open to add any neccessary compat layers; shoot a PR and we'll get it in if you have any nice ideas!

[chris-twiner]

13.3 LTS backported the 3.5 isNativeType change as well so that's reflected in the title. (I was mistaken, 0.16 spark33 builds work fine)

fyi - I've created shim to handle the abstraction barring isNative the approach seems workable. I'll start on frameless shims in the next days. lots to do there.

[chris-twiner]

fyi - With the 1st shim snapshot push, compiling against 3.5.oss works when running against 14.3.dbr, only StaticInvoke needed doing. (so the same frameless jar can be run against both 14.0/14.1 and 14.2/14.3 by swapping the shim to the right dbr version. or indeed users stay with the oss version as per a normal dependency)

The code for StaticInvoke handling and shims etc. is branch here and diff here

I'll target the major pain points impacted in each OSS major/minor release next (i.e. TypedEncoder, TypedExpressionEncoder and RecordEncoder) to have each internal api usage pulled out (e.g. [Un]WrapOption, Invoke, NewInstance, GetStructField, ifisnull, GetColumnByOrdinal, MapObjects and probably TypedExpressionEncoder itself). It's probably worth doing them in advance of any pull request.

What I'll attempt with this is to see how much of the encoding logic can be re-used from the current frameless codebase and targetted major versions on older dbrs (e.g. can we get a 3.5 oss frameless jar running on a 3.1.2 Databricks runtime)

If you'd like me to add FramelessInternals.objectTypeFor, ScalaReflection.dataTypeFor etc. as well I think that'd make sense but Reflection had been fairly stable code before they ripped it out :)

[chris-twiner]

@pomadchin -
So at time of writing, building the current 0.16 based fork branch (rev 7944fe9 is pre-reformatting) against the 3.5 correct shim_runtime version and testing the encoding functionality (used by Quality tests built against 0.16 frameless with 3.1.3 oss base) with the shim_runtime for 9.1.dbr works despite the very different impl.

I'd not want to advertise that it's possible to jump versions so much (there are other issues like kmeans and join interface changes of course) but it proves the approach works at least and may ease 4.x support.

Pre-reformatting functional change diff is here. Key mima change is removal of frameless.MapGroups, it could of course be kept and just forwarding to a forward if needed.