[SPARK-5154] [PySpark] [Streaming] Kafka streaming support in Python

This PR brings the Python API for Spark Streaming Kafka data source.

```
    class KafkaUtils(__builtin__.object)
     |  Static methods defined here:
     |
     |  createStream(ssc, zkQuorum, groupId, topics, storageLevel=StorageLevel(True, True, False, False,
2), keyDecoder=<function utf8_decoder>, valueDecoder=<function utf8_decoder>)
     |      Create an input stream that pulls messages from a Kafka Broker.
     |
     |      :param ssc:  StreamingContext object
     |      :param zkQuorum:  Zookeeper quorum (hostname:port,hostname:port,..).
     |      :param groupId:  The group id for this consumer.
     |      :param topics:  Dict of (topic_name -> numPartitions) to consume.
     |                      Each partition is consumed in its own thread.
     |      :param storageLevel:  RDD storage level.
     |      :param keyDecoder:  A function used to decode key
     |      :param valueDecoder:  A function used to decode value
     |      :return: A DStream object
```
run the example:

```
bin/spark-submit --driver-class-path external/kafka-assembly/target/scala-*/spark-streaming-kafka-assembly-*.jar examples/src/main/python/streaming/kafka_wordcount.py localhost:2181 test
```

Author: Davies Liu <davies@databricks.com>
Author: Tathagata Das <tdas@databricks.com>

Closes #3715 from davies/kafka and squashes the following commits:

d93bfe0 [Davies Liu] Update make-distribution.sh
4280d04 [Davies Liu] address comments
e6d0427 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into kafka
f257071 [Davies Liu] add tests for null in RDD
23b039a [Davies Liu] address comments
9af51c4 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'kafka' of github.com:davies/spark into kafka
a74da87 [Davies Liu] address comments
dc1eed0 [Davies Liu] Update kafka_wordcount.py
31e2317 [Davies Liu] Update kafka_wordcount.py
370ba61 [Davies Liu] Update kafka.py
97386b3 [Davies Liu] address comment
2c567a5 [Davies Liu] update logging and comment
33730d1 [Davies Liu] Merge branch 'master' of github.com:apache/spark into kafka
adeeb38 [Davies Liu] Merge pull request #3 from tdas/kafka-python-api
aea8953 [Tathagata Das] Kafka-assembly for Python API
eea16a7 [Davies Liu] refactor
f6ce899 [Davies Liu] add example and fix bugs
98c8d17 [Davies Liu] fix python style
5697a01 [Davies Liu] bypass decoder in scala
048dbe6 [Davies Liu] fix python style
75d485e [Davies Liu] add mqtt
07923c4 [Davies Liu] support kafka in Python

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/python/pyspark/tests.py b/python/pyspark/tests.py
index fef6c92875..c7d0622d65 100644
--- a/python/pyspark/tests.py
+++ b/python/pyspark/tests.py
@@ -47,9 +47,10 @@ else:
 
 from pyspark.conf import SparkConf
 from pyspark.context import SparkContext
+from pyspark.rdd import RDD
 from pyspark.files import SparkFiles
 from pyspark.serializers import read_int, BatchedSerializer, MarshalSerializer, PickleSerializer, \
-    CloudPickleSerializer, CompressedSerializer
+    CloudPickleSerializer, CompressedSerializer, UTF8Deserializer, NoOpSerializer
 from pyspark.shuffle import Aggregator, InMemoryMerger, ExternalMerger, ExternalSorter
 from pyspark.sql import SQLContext, IntegerType, Row, ArrayType, StructType, StructField, \
     UserDefinedType, DoubleType
@@ -716,6 +717,13 @@ class RDDTests(ReusedPySparkTestCase):
         wr_s21 = rdd.sample(True, 0.4, 21).collect()
         self.assertNotEqual(set(wr_s11), set(wr_s21))
 
+    def test_null_in_rdd(self):
+        jrdd = self.sc._jvm.PythonUtils.generateRDDWithNull(self.sc._jsc)
+        rdd = RDD(jrdd, self.sc, UTF8Deserializer())
+        self.assertEqual([u"a", None, u"b"], rdd.collect())
+        rdd = RDD(jrdd, self.sc, NoOpSerializer())
+        self.assertEqual(["a", None, "b"], rdd.collect())
+
     def test_multiple_python_java_RDD_conversions(self):
         # Regression test for SPARK-5361
         data = [