org.apache.spark.sql.sources

Interface DataSourceRegister

public interface DataSourceRegister

::DeveloperApi:: Data sources should implement this trait so that they can register an alias to their data source. This allows users to give the data source alias as the format type over the fully qualified class name.

A new instance of this class will be instantiated each time a DDL call is made.

Since:

1.5.0

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	shortName() The string that represents the format that this data source provider uses.

Method Detail

shortName

java.lang.String shortName()

The string that represents the format that this data source provider uses. This is overridden by children to provide a nice alias for the data source. For example:

   override def format(): String = "parquet"
 

Returns:

(undocumented)

Since:

1.5.0