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
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