Retrieve SparkContext from SparkSession

Question

I\'m running a spark batch job and uses SparkSession as I need a lot of spark-sql features to process in each of my components. The SparkContext is in

Answer 1

The sparkContext field does not seem to be public anymore(I am using Spark 2.3.2), however, you can retreive it using a method of the same name:

spark.sparkContext()

This is applicable to Spark Java only.

Answer 2

Just to post as an answer - the SparkContext can be accessed from SparkSession using spark.sparkContext (no parenthesis)