How to create SparkSession from existing SparkContext

Question

I have a Spark application which using Spark 2.0 new API with SparkSession. I am building this application on top of the another application which is using

Answer 1

Like in the above example you cannot create because SparkSession's constructor is private Instead you can create a SQLContext using the SparkContext, and later get the sparksession from the sqlcontext like this

val sqlContext=new SQLContext(sparkContext);
val spark=sqlContext.sparkSession

Hope this helps