Importing spark.implicits._ in scala

Question

I am trying to import spark.implicits._ Apparently, this is an object inside a class in scala. when i import it in a method like so:

def f() = {
  val spark          


        

Answer 1

I think the GitHub code in SparkSession.scala file can give you a good hint:

      /**
       * :: Experimental ::
       * (Scala-specific) Implicit methods available in Scala for converting
       * common Scala objects into [[DataFrame]]s.
       *
       * {{{
       *   val sparkSession = SparkSession.builder.getOrCreate()
       *   import sparkSession.implicits._
       * }}}
       *
       * @since 2.0.0
       */
      @Experimental
      object implicits extends SQLImplicits with Serializable {
        protected override def _sqlContext: SQLContext = SparkSession.this.sqlContext
      }

here "spark" in "spark.implicits._" is just the sparkSession object we created.

Here is another reference!