## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Avoid allocating some 0-length arrays, esp. in UTF8String, and by using Array.empty in Scala over Array[T]()
## How was this patch tested?
Jenkins
Author: Sean Owen <sowen@cloudera.com>
Closes#14895 from srowen/SPARK-17331.
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Fix minor typos python example code in streaming programming guide
## How was this patch tested?
N/A
Author: Dmitriy Sokolov <silentsokolov@gmail.com>
Closes#14805 from silentsokolov/fix-typos.
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
When documentation is built is should reference examples from the same build. There are times when the docs have links that point to files in the GitHub head which may not be valid on the current release. Changed that in URLs to make them point to the right tag in git using ```SPARK_VERSION_SHORT```
…from its own release version] [Streaming programming guide]
Author: Jagadeesan <as2@us.ibm.com>
Closes#14596 from jagadeesanas2/SPARK-12370.
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?
Doc for the Kafka 0.10 integration
## How was this patch tested?
Scala code examples were taken from my example repo, so hopefully they compile.
Author: cody koeninger <cody@koeninger.org>
Closes#14385 from koeninger/SPARK-16312.
