nxcals.api.extraction.data.builders.DataFrame.createGlobalTempView

DataFrame.createGlobalTempView(name: str) → None

Creates a global temporary view with this DataFrame.

The lifetime of this temporary view is tied to this Spark application. throws TempTableAlreadyExistsException, if the view name already exists in the catalog.

New in version 2.1.0.

Examples

>>> df.createGlobalTempView("people")
>>> df2 = spark.sql("select * from global_temp.people")
>>> sorted(df.collect()) == sorted(df2.collect())
True
>>> df.createGlobalTempView("people")  
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
AnalysisException: u"Temporary table 'people' already exists;"
>>> spark.catalog.dropGlobalTempView("people")
True