[SPARK-23809][SQL] Active SparkSession should be set by getOrCreate

## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

Currently, the active spark session is set inconsistently (e.g., in createDataFrame, prior to query execution). Many places in spark also incorrectly query active session when they should be calling activeSession.getOrElse(defaultSession) and so might get None even if a Spark session exists.

The semantics here can be cleaned up if we also set the active session when the default session is set.

Related: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/20926/files

## How was this patch tested?

Unit test, existing test. Note that if apache#20926 merges first we should also update the tests there.

Author: Eric Liang <[email protected]>

Closes apache#20927 from ericl/active-session-cleanup.

Author: ericl

sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SparkSession.scala

@@ -952,7 +952,8 @@ object SparkSession {
 
         session = new SparkSession(sparkContext, None, None, extensions)
         options.foreach { case (k, v) => session.initialSessionOptions.put(k, v) }
-        defaultSession.set(session)
+        setDefaultSession(session)
+        setActiveSession(session)
 
         // Register a successfully instantiated context to the singleton. This should be at the
         // end of the class definition so that the singleton is updated only if there is no
@@ -1028,6 +1029,17 @@ object SparkSession {
    */
   def getDefaultSession: Option[SparkSession] = Option(defaultSession.get)
 
+  /**
+   * Returns the currently active SparkSession, otherwise the default one. If there is no default
+   * SparkSession, throws an exception.
+   *
+   * @since 2.4.0
+   */
+  def active: SparkSession = {
+    getActiveSession.getOrElse(getDefaultSession.getOrElse(
+      throw new IllegalStateException("No active or default Spark session found")))
+  }
+
   ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
   // Private methods from now on
   ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SparkSessionBuilderSuite.scala

@@ -50,6 +50,24 @@ class SparkSessionBuilderSuite extends SparkFunSuite with BeforeAndAfterEach {
     assert(SparkSession.builder().getOrCreate() == session)
   }
 
+  test("sets default and active session") {
+    assert(SparkSession.getDefaultSession == None)
+    assert(SparkSession.getActiveSession == None)
+    val session = SparkSession.builder().master("local").getOrCreate()
+    assert(SparkSession.getDefaultSession == Some(session))
+    assert(SparkSession.getActiveSession == Some(session))
+  }
+
+  test("get active or default session") {
+    val session = SparkSession.builder().master("local").getOrCreate()
+    assert(SparkSession.active == session)
+    SparkSession.clearActiveSession()
+    assert(SparkSession.active == session)
+    SparkSession.clearDefaultSession()
+    intercept[IllegalStateException](SparkSession.active)
+    session.stop()
+  }
+
   test("config options are propagated to existing SparkSession") {
     val session1 = SparkSession.builder().master("local").config("spark-config1", "a").getOrCreate()
     assert(session1.conf.get("spark-config1") == "a")

sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/test/TestSQLContext.scala

@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ private[spark] class TestSparkSession(sc: SparkContext) extends SparkSession(sc)
   }
 
   SparkSession.setDefaultSession(this)
+  SparkSession.setActiveSession(this)
 
   @transient
   override lazy val sessionState: SessionState = {

sql/hive/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/test/TestHive.scala

@@ -179,6 +179,9 @@ private[hive] class TestHiveSparkSession(
       loadTestTables)
   }
 
+  SparkSession.setDefaultSession(this)
+  SparkSession.setActiveSession(this)
+
   { // set the metastore temporary configuration
     val metastoreTempConf = HiveUtils.newTemporaryConfiguration(useInMemoryDerby = false) ++ Map(
       ConfVars.METASTORE_INTEGER_JDO_PUSHDOWN.varname -> "true",