## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Currently we check pandas version by capturing if `ImportError` for the specific imports is raised or not but we can compare `LooseVersion` of the version strings as the same as we're checking pyarrow version.
## How was this patch tested?
Existing tests.
Author: Takuya UESHIN <ueshin@databricks.com>
Closes#20054 from ueshin/issues/SPARK-22874.
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Upgrade Spark to Arrow 0.8.0 for Java and Python. Also includes an upgrade of Netty to 4.1.17 to resolve dependency requirements.
The highlights that pertain to Spark for the update from Arrow versoin 0.4.1 to 0.8.0 include:
* Java refactoring for more simple API
* Java reduced heap usage and streamlined hot code paths
* Type support for DecimalType, ArrayType
* Improved type casting support in Python
* Simplified type checking in Python
## How was this patch tested?
Existing tests
Author: Bryan Cutler <cutlerb@gmail.com>
Author: Shixiong Zhu <zsxwing@gmail.com>
Closes#19884 from BryanCutler/arrow-upgrade-080-SPARK-22324.
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
* Add a "function type" argument to pandas_udf.
* Add a new public enum class `PandasUdfType` in pyspark.sql.functions
* Refactor udf related code from pyspark.sql.functions to pyspark.sql.udf
* Merge "PythonUdfType" and "PythonEvalType" into a single enum class "PythonEvalType"
Example:
```
from pyspark.sql.functions import pandas_udf, PandasUDFType
pandas_udf('double', PandasUDFType.SCALAR):
def plus_one(v):
return v + 1
```
## Design doc
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KlLaa-xJ3oz28xlEJqXyCAHU3dwFYkFs_ixcUXrJNTc/edit
## How was this patch tested?
Added PandasUDFTests
## TODO:
* [x] Implement proper enum type for `PandasUDFType`
* [x] Update documentation
* [x] Add more tests in PandasUDFTests
Author: Li Jin <ice.xelloss@gmail.com>
Closes#19630 from icexelloss/spark-22409-pandas-udf-type.
