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spark_on_k8s.connect

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ConnectClientUnavailable

Bases: ConnectError

This interpreter has no compatible Spark Connect client; retrying cannot succeed.

Source code in spark_on_k8s/connect.py
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class ConnectClientUnavailable(ConnectError):
    """This interpreter has no compatible Spark Connect client; retrying cannot succeed."""

ConnectError

Bases: ValueError

Invalid connection settings or a failed bounded connection check.

Source code in spark_on_k8s/connect.py
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class ConnectError(ValueError):
    """Invalid connection settings or a failed bounded connection check."""

ConnectProfile dataclass

Connection to an existing Spark Connect service; no cluster is created.

Source code in spark_on_k8s/connect.py
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@dataclass(frozen=True, kw_only=True)
class ConnectProfile:
    """Connection to an existing Spark Connect service; no cluster is created."""

    endpoint: str
    tls: bool = True
    token_env: str | None = None
    user_id: str | None = None
    allow_insecure: bool = False

    def __post_init__(self):
        if not isinstance(self.endpoint, str) or any(c.isspace() for c in self.endpoint):
            raise ConnectError("endpoint must be a Spark Connect URL without whitespace.")
        try:
            url = urlsplit(self.endpoint)
            port = url.port
        except ValueError:
            raise ConnectError("Invalid Spark Connect endpoint.") from None
        if (
            # PySpark requires this literal prefix; URL parsing alone also accepts "SC://".
            not self.endpoint.startswith("sc://")
            or not url.hostname
            or url.username is not None
            or url.password is not None
            or url.path not in {"", "/"}
            or url.query
            or url.fragment
            # Even an empty query or fragment would hide the appended TLS, token and user
            # parameters from the client, which then connects in plaintext without credentials.
            or any(separator in self.endpoint for separator in ";?#")
            or port == 0
        ):
            raise ConnectError("Use sc://host:port without credentials, parameters, query, or path.")
        if type(self.tls) is not bool or type(self.allow_insecure) is not bool:
            raise ConnectError("tls and allow_insecure must be booleans.")
        try:
            loopback = ipaddress.ip_address(url.hostname).is_loopback
        except ValueError:
            loopback = url.hostname.lower() == "localhost"
        if not self.tls and not loopback and not self.allow_insecure:
            raise ConnectError("Remote endpoints require TLS; use allow_insecure only on a trusted network.")
        if self.token_env is not None and (
            not isinstance(self.token_env, str) or not re.fullmatch(r"[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z0-9_]*", self.token_env)
        ):
            raise ConnectError("token_env must name an environment variable.")
        # PySpark Connect clients use TLS whenever a token is set, except local credentials for localhost.
        if self.token_env is not None and not self.tls and url.hostname.lower() != "localhost":
            raise ConnectError(
                "token_env requires tls = true unless the endpoint host is localhost; "
                "Spark Connect clients send tokens only over TLS or to localhost."
            )
        if self.user_id is not None and (not isinstance(self.user_id, str) or not self.user_id):
            raise ConnectError("user_id must be a non-empty string.")

    @classmethod
    def from_file(cls, path: str | Path, *, profile: str = "default") -> ConnectProfile:
        with Path(path).expanduser().open("rb") as stream:
            content = stream.read(1024 * 1024 + 1)
        if len(content) > 1024 * 1024:
            raise ConnectError("Connect profile files must be no larger than 1 MiB.")
        try:
            document = tomllib.loads(content.decode("utf-8"))
        except (UnicodeError, tomllib.TOMLDecodeError):
            raise ConnectError("Invalid Connect profile TOML.") from None
        if set(document) != {"profiles"} or not isinstance(document["profiles"], dict):
            raise ConnectError("Expected a TOML [profiles.NAME] table.")
        values = document["profiles"].get(profile)
        if not isinstance(values, dict):
            raise ConnectError("The selected Connect profile does not exist.")
        if set(values) - set(cls.__dataclass_fields__) or "endpoint" not in values:
            raise ConnectError("Connect profile has missing or unsupported fields.")
        return cls(**values)

    def connection_string(self) -> str:
        """Build a private URI for PySpark. This return value may contain credentials."""
        url = self.endpoint.rstrip("/") + "/;use_ssl=" + str(self.tls).lower()
        if self.token_env:
            token = os.environ.get(self.token_env)
            if not token:
                raise ConnectError("The configured token environment variable is empty or missing.")
            url += ";token=" + quote(token, safe="")
        if self.user_id:
            url += ";user_id=" + quote(self.user_id, safe="")
        return url

    @contextmanager
    def session(self):
        """Create an independent session and attempt release without masking application failure."""
        connection = self.connection_string()
        try:
            from pyspark.sql.connect.session import SparkSession
        except ImportError:
            raise ConnectClientUnavailable(
                "Install spark-on-k8s[connect] on Python 3.11–3.14, or a matching pyspark[connect] client."
            ) from None
        try:
            session = SparkSession.builder.remote(connection).create()
        except Exception:
            raise ConnectError(
                "Could not open a Spark Connect session; check endpoint and credentials."
            ) from None
        try:
            yield session
        except BaseException as original:
            try:
                session.stop()
            except Exception:
                original.add_note("Spark Connect session release also failed; server expiry may be required.")
            raise
        else:
            try:
                session.stop()
            except Exception:
                raise ConnectError(
                    "Spark Connect session release failed; server expiry may be required."
                ) from None

    def probe(self, *, timeout: float = 15, expected_app_id: str | None = None) -> dict:
        """Execute a tiny remote query in a child process with a hard total timeout.

        The result reports the server's ``spark_version``, the child's PySpark
        ``client_version`` (``None`` when unknown) and advisory ``warnings``.
        """
        if type(timeout) not in {int, float} or not math.isfinite(timeout) or timeout <= 0:
            raise ConnectError("timeout must be a positive finite number of seconds.")
        if expected_app_id is not None and (
            not isinstance(expected_app_id, str)
            or not re.fullmatch(r"[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,62}", expected_app_id)
        ):
            raise ConnectError("expected_app_id must be a valid Spark application identifier")
        request = asdict(self)
        if expected_app_id is not None:
            request["expected_app_id"] = expected_app_id
        # Credentials remain in the environment/stdin, never process arguments or a temporary file.
        try:
            result = subprocess.run(
                # -P keeps the working directory off sys.path. Unlike -I, it keeps PYTHONPATH and the
                # user site, so the check imports the installation (and client) the caller imports.
                [
                    sys.executable,
                    "-P",
                    *(["-E"] if sys.flags.ignore_environment else []),
                    *(["-s"] if sys.flags.no_user_site else []),
                    "-m",
                    "spark_on_k8s.connect",
                ],
                input=json.dumps(request),
                capture_output=True,
                text=True,
                timeout=timeout,
                check=False,
            )
        except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
            raise TimeoutError("Spark Connect check timed out; the server was not stopped.") from None
        if result.returncode:
            try:
                payload = json.loads(result.stdout)
                error = payload["error"]
                unavailable = payload.get("code") == _CLIENT_UNAVAILABLE
            except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError, AttributeError):
                error, unavailable = _CHECK_ERROR, False
            raise (ConnectClientUnavailable if unavailable else ConnectError)(error)
        try:
            payload = json.loads(result.stdout)
            if payload.get("schema_version") != 1 or payload.get("status") != "ok":
                raise ValueError
            if expected_app_id is not None and payload.get("app_id") != expected_app_id:
                raise ValueError
        except (ValueError, AttributeError):
            raise ConnectError("Spark Connect check returned an invalid response.") from None
        payload.setdefault("client_version", None)
        # The query succeeded; a version skew is reported without turning it into a failure.
        payload["warnings"] = version_warnings(payload["client_version"], payload.get("spark_version"))
        return payload

connection_string()

Build a private URI for PySpark. This return value may contain credentials.

Source code in spark_on_k8s/connect.py
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def connection_string(self) -> str:
    """Build a private URI for PySpark. This return value may contain credentials."""
    url = self.endpoint.rstrip("/") + "/;use_ssl=" + str(self.tls).lower()
    if self.token_env:
        token = os.environ.get(self.token_env)
        if not token:
            raise ConnectError("The configured token environment variable is empty or missing.")
        url += ";token=" + quote(token, safe="")
    if self.user_id:
        url += ";user_id=" + quote(self.user_id, safe="")
    return url

probe(*, timeout=15, expected_app_id=None)

Execute a tiny remote query in a child process with a hard total timeout.

The result reports the server's spark_version, the child's PySpark client_version (None when unknown) and advisory warnings.

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def probe(self, *, timeout: float = 15, expected_app_id: str | None = None) -> dict:
    """Execute a tiny remote query in a child process with a hard total timeout.

    The result reports the server's ``spark_version``, the child's PySpark
    ``client_version`` (``None`` when unknown) and advisory ``warnings``.
    """
    if type(timeout) not in {int, float} or not math.isfinite(timeout) or timeout <= 0:
        raise ConnectError("timeout must be a positive finite number of seconds.")
    if expected_app_id is not None and (
        not isinstance(expected_app_id, str)
        or not re.fullmatch(r"[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]{0,62}", expected_app_id)
    ):
        raise ConnectError("expected_app_id must be a valid Spark application identifier")
    request = asdict(self)
    if expected_app_id is not None:
        request["expected_app_id"] = expected_app_id
    # Credentials remain in the environment/stdin, never process arguments or a temporary file.
    try:
        result = subprocess.run(
            # -P keeps the working directory off sys.path. Unlike -I, it keeps PYTHONPATH and the
            # user site, so the check imports the installation (and client) the caller imports.
            [
                sys.executable,
                "-P",
                *(["-E"] if sys.flags.ignore_environment else []),
                *(["-s"] if sys.flags.no_user_site else []),
                "-m",
                "spark_on_k8s.connect",
            ],
            input=json.dumps(request),
            capture_output=True,
            text=True,
            timeout=timeout,
            check=False,
        )
    except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
        raise TimeoutError("Spark Connect check timed out; the server was not stopped.") from None
    if result.returncode:
        try:
            payload = json.loads(result.stdout)
            error = payload["error"]
            unavailable = payload.get("code") == _CLIENT_UNAVAILABLE
        except (ValueError, KeyError, TypeError, AttributeError):
            error, unavailable = _CHECK_ERROR, False
        raise (ConnectClientUnavailable if unavailable else ConnectError)(error)
    try:
        payload = json.loads(result.stdout)
        if payload.get("schema_version") != 1 or payload.get("status") != "ok":
            raise ValueError
        if expected_app_id is not None and payload.get("app_id") != expected_app_id:
            raise ValueError
    except (ValueError, AttributeError):
        raise ConnectError("Spark Connect check returned an invalid response.") from None
    payload.setdefault("client_version", None)
    # The query succeeded; a version skew is reported without turning it into a failure.
    payload["warnings"] = version_warnings(payload["client_version"], payload.get("spark_version"))
    return payload

session()

Create an independent session and attempt release without masking application failure.

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@contextmanager
def session(self):
    """Create an independent session and attempt release without masking application failure."""
    connection = self.connection_string()
    try:
        from pyspark.sql.connect.session import SparkSession
    except ImportError:
        raise ConnectClientUnavailable(
            "Install spark-on-k8s[connect] on Python 3.11–3.14, or a matching pyspark[connect] client."
        ) from None
    try:
        session = SparkSession.builder.remote(connection).create()
    except Exception:
        raise ConnectError(
            "Could not open a Spark Connect session; check endpoint and credentials."
        ) from None
    try:
        yield session
    except BaseException as original:
        try:
            session.stop()
        except Exception:
            original.add_note("Spark Connect session release also failed; server expiry may be required.")
        raise
    else:
        try:
            session.stop()
        except Exception:
            raise ConnectError(
                "Spark Connect session release failed; server expiry may be required."
            ) from None

version_warnings(client_version, server_version)

Return a version_skew warning when client and server major.minor versions differ.

Patch releases are not compared. An unknown or unparseable version yields no warning, which does not establish compatibility. A warning never fails a successful query.

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def version_warnings(client_version: str | None, server_version: str | None) -> list[dict[str, str]]:
    """Return a ``version_skew`` warning when client and server major.minor versions differ.

    Patch releases are not compared. An unknown or unparseable version yields no warning,
    which does not establish compatibility. A warning never fails a successful query.
    """
    versions = []
    for value in (client_version, server_version):
        match = _MAJOR_MINOR.match(value) if isinstance(value, str) else None
        if match is None:
            return []
        versions.append((int(match[1]), int(match[2])))
    (client_major, client_minor), (server_major, server_minor) = versions
    if (client_major, client_minor) == (server_major, server_minor):
        return []
    return [
        {
            "code": "version_skew",
            "message": (
                f"Spark Connect client {client_major}.{client_minor} and server "
                f"{server_major}.{server_minor} differ in major or minor version; later queries can "
                "fail with errors unrelated to your code. Use a client matching the server's "
                "major.minor version."
            ),
        }
    ]