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[SPARK-17714][CORE][TEST-MAVEN][TEST-HADOOP2.6] Avoid using ExecutorClassLoader to load Netty generated classes

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Netty's `MessageToMessageEncoder` uses [Javassist](https://github.com/netty/netty/blob/91a0bdc17a8298437d6de08a8958d753799bd4a6/common/src/main/java/io/netty/util/internal/JavassistTypeParameterMatcherGenerator.java#L62

) to generate a matcher class and the implementation calls `Class.forName` to check if this class is already generated. If `MessageEncoder` or `MessageDecoder` is created in `ExecutorClassLoader.findClass`, it will cause `ClassCircularityError`. This is because loading this Netty generated class will call `ExecutorClassLoader.findClass` to search this class, and `ExecutorClassLoader` will try to use RPC to load it and cause to load the non-exist matcher class again. JVM will report `ClassCircularityError` to prevent such infinite recursion.

##### Why it only happens in Maven builds

It's because Maven and SBT have different class loader tree. The Maven build will set a URLClassLoader as the current context class loader to run the tests and expose this issue. The class loader tree is as following:

```
bootstrap class loader ------ ... ----- REPL class loader ---- ExecutorClassLoader
|
|
URLClasssLoader
```

The SBT build uses the bootstrap class loader directly and `ReplSuite.test("propagation of local properties")` is the first test in ReplSuite, which happens to load `io/netty/util/internal/__matchers__/org/apache/spark/network/protocol/MessageMatcher` into the bootstrap class loader (Note: in maven build, it's loaded into URLClasssLoader so it cannot be found in ExecutorClassLoader). This issue can be reproduced in SBT as well. Here are the produce steps:
- Enable `hadoop.caller.context.enabled`.
- Replace `Class.forName` with `Utils.classForName` in `object CallerContext`.
- Ignore `ReplSuite.test("propagation of local properties")`.
- Run `ReplSuite` using SBT.

This PR just creates a singleton MessageEncoder and MessageDecoder and makes sure they are created before switching to ExecutorClassLoader. TransportContext will be created when creating RpcEnv and that happens before creating ExecutorClassLoader.

## How was this patch tested?

Jenkins

Author: Shixiong Zhu <shixiong@databricks.com>

Closes #16859 from zsxwing/SPARK-17714.

(cherry picked from commit 905fdf0c)
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Apache Spark

Spark is a fast and general cluster computing system for Big Data. It provides high-level APIs in Scala, Java, Python, and R, and an optimized engine that supports general computation graphs for data analysis. It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and DataFrames, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX for graph processing, and Spark Streaming for stream processing.

http://spark.apache.org/

Online Documentation

You can find the latest Spark documentation, including a programming guide, on the project web page. This README file only contains basic setup instructions.

Building Spark

Spark is built using Apache Maven. To build Spark and its example programs, run:

build/mvn -DskipTests clean package

(You do not need to do this if you downloaded a pre-built package.)

You can build Spark using more than one thread by using the -T option with Maven, see "Parallel builds in Maven 3". More detailed documentation is available from the project site, at "Building Spark".

For general development tips, including info on developing Spark using an IDE, see http://spark.apache.org/developer-tools.html.

Interactive Scala Shell

The easiest way to start using Spark is through the Scala shell:

./bin/spark-shell

Try the following command, which should return 1000:

scala> sc.parallelize(1 to 1000).count()

Interactive Python Shell

Alternatively, if you prefer Python, you can use the Python shell:

./bin/pyspark

And run the following command, which should also return 1000:

>>> sc.parallelize(range(1000)).count()

Example Programs

Spark also comes with several sample programs in the examples directory. To run one of them, use ./bin/run-example <class> [params]. For example:

./bin/run-example SparkPi

will run the Pi example locally.

You can set the MASTER environment variable when running examples to submit examples to a cluster. This can be a mesos:// or spark:// URL, "yarn" to run on YARN, and "local" to run locally with one thread, or "local[N]" to run locally with N threads. You can also use an abbreviated class name if the class is in the examples package. For instance:

MASTER=spark://host:7077 ./bin/run-example SparkPi

Many of the example programs print usage help if no params are given.

Running Tests

Testing first requires building Spark. Once Spark is built, tests can be run using:

./dev/run-tests

Please see the guidance on how to run tests for a module, or individual tests.

A Note About Hadoop Versions

Spark uses the Hadoop core library to talk to HDFS and other Hadoop-supported storage systems. Because the protocols have changed in different versions of Hadoop, you must build Spark against the same version that your cluster runs.

Please refer to the build documentation at "Specifying the Hadoop Version" for detailed guidance on building for a particular distribution of Hadoop, including building for particular Hive and Hive Thriftserver distributions.

Configuration

Please refer to the Configuration Guide in the online documentation for an overview on how to configure Spark.

## Contributing

Please review the Contribution to Spark guide for information on how to get started contributing to the project.