## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

This is a straightforward clone of JoshRosen 's original patch. I have follow-up changes to fix block replication for repl-defined classes as well, but those appear to be flaking tests so I'm going to leave that for SPARK-17042

## How was this patch tested?

End-to-end test in ReplSuite (also more tests in DistributedSuite from the original patch).

Author: Eric Liang <ekl@databricks.com>

Closes #14311 from ericl/spark-16550.