Automatically including jars to PySpark classpath

Question

I\'m trying to automatically include jars to my PySpark classpath. Right now I can type the following command and it works:

$ pyspark --jars /path/to/my.jar
         


        

Answer 1

You can add the jar files in the spark-defaults.conf file (located in the conf folder of your spark installation). If there is more than one entry in the jars list, use : as separator.

spark.driver.extraClassPath /path/to/my.jar

This property is documented in https://spark.apache.org/docs/1.3.1/configuration.html#runtime-environment