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How to use sqlContext? Getting an error!

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@sudhir reddy

SqlContext is not available by default in Spark2 shell.

Create a sqlContext using below statement after launching the spark-shell and then you can read the json using this sqlContext.

val sqlContext = new org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext(sc)

Let me know if this helps.

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New Contributor

Hope this helps.