From 12005c88fb24168d57b577cff73eddcd9d8963fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Felix Cheung <felixcheung_m@hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 09:45:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [SPARK-16538][SPARKR] fix R call with namespace operator on
 SparkSession functions

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Fix function routing to work with and without namespace operator `SparkR::createDataFrame`

## How was this patch tested?

manual, unit tests

shivaram

Author: Felix Cheung <felixcheung_m@hotmail.com>

Closes #14195 from felixcheung/rroutedefault.
---
 R/pkg/R/SQLContext.R                      | 4 +++-
 R/pkg/inst/tests/testthat/test_sparkSQL.R | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/R/pkg/R/SQLContext.R b/R/pkg/R/SQLContext.R
index bc0daa25c9..d2ea1553c6 100644
--- a/R/pkg/R/SQLContext.R
+++ b/R/pkg/R/SQLContext.R
@@ -48,7 +48,9 @@ getInternalType <- function(x) {
 #' @return whatever the target returns
 #' @noRd
 dispatchFunc <- function(newFuncSig, x, ...) {
-  funcName <- as.character(sys.call(sys.parent())[[1]])
+  # When called with SparkR::createDataFrame, sys.call()[[1]] returns c(::, SparkR, createDataFrame)
+  callsite <- as.character(sys.call(sys.parent())[[1]])
+  funcName <- callsite[[length(callsite)]]
   f <- get(paste0(funcName, ".default"))
   # Strip sqlContext from list of parameters and then pass the rest along.
   contextNames <- c("org.apache.spark.sql.SQLContext",
diff --git a/R/pkg/inst/tests/testthat/test_sparkSQL.R b/R/pkg/inst/tests/testthat/test_sparkSQL.R
index 87868230eb..a1b1f1c567 100644
--- a/R/pkg/inst/tests/testthat/test_sparkSQL.R
+++ b/R/pkg/inst/tests/testthat/test_sparkSQL.R
@@ -2405,7 +2405,8 @@ test_that("createDataFrame sqlContext parameter backward compatibility", {
   a <- 1:3
   b <- c("a", "b", "c")
   ldf <- data.frame(a, b)
-  df <- suppressWarnings(createDataFrame(sqlContext, ldf))
+  # Call function with namespace :: operator - SPARK-16538
+  df <- suppressWarnings(SparkR::createDataFrame(sqlContext, ldf))
   expect_equal(columns(df), c("a", "b"))
   expect_equal(dtypes(df), list(c("a", "int"), c("b", "string")))
   expect_equal(count(df), 3)
-- 
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