[SPARK-8607] SparkR -- jars not being added to application classpath correctly

Add `getStaticClass` method in SparkR's `RBackendHandler`

This is a fix for the problem referenced in [SPARK-5185](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-5185).

cc shivaram

Author: cafreeman <cfreeman@alteryx.com>

Closes #7001 from cafreeman/branch-1.4 and squashes the following commits:

8f81194 [cafreeman] Add missing license
31aedcf [cafreeman] Refactor test to call an external R script
2c22073 [cafreeman] Merge branch 'branch-1.4' of github.com:apache/spark into branch-1.4
0bea809 [cafreeman] Fixed relative path issue and added smaller JAR
ee25e60 [cafreeman] Merge branch 'branch-1.4' of github.com:apache/spark into branch-1.4
9a5c362 [cafreeman] test for including JAR when launching sparkContext
9101223 [cafreeman] Merge branch 'branch-1.4' of github.com:apache/spark into branch-1.4
5a80844 [cafreeman] Fix style nits
7c6bd0c [cafreeman] [SPARK-8607] SparkR

(cherry picked from commit 2579948bf5d89ac2d822ace605a6a4afce5258d6)
Signed-off-by: Shivaram Venkataraman <shivaram@cs.berkeley.edu>

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/R/pkg/inst/tests/test_includeJAR.R b/R/pkg/inst/tests/test_includeJAR.R
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+++ b/R/pkg/inst/tests/test_includeJAR.R
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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+#
+context("include an external JAR in SparkContext")
+
+runScript <- function() {
+  sparkHome <- Sys.getenv("SPARK_HOME")
+  jarPath <- paste("--jars",
+                   shQuote(file.path(sparkHome, "R/lib/SparkR/test_support/sparktestjar_2.10-1.0.jar")))
+  scriptPath <- file.path(sparkHome, "R/lib/SparkR/tests/jarTest.R")
+  submitPath <- file.path(sparkHome, "bin/spark-submit")
+  res <- system2(command = submitPath,
+                 args = c(jarPath, scriptPath),
+                 stdout = TRUE)
+  tail(res, 2)
+}
+
+test_that("sparkJars tag in SparkContext", {
+  testOutput <- runScript()
+  helloTest <- testOutput[1]
+  expect_true(helloTest == "Hello, Dave")
+  basicFunction <- testOutput[2]
+  expect_true(basicFunction == 4L)
+})