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How to Mock Hive Support in PySpark with unittest.mock

This code demonstrates how to mock Hive support in a PySpark environment using unittest.mock to simulate SQL queries returning fixed data.

pyspark hive mock
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from unittest.mock import Mock, patch


def get_hive_tables(spark):
    """Mock Hive support by returning a fixed list of tables."""
    return spark.sql("SHOW TABLES").collect()


class HiveTable:
    """Simple class that mimics a Hive table row."""
    def __init__(self, database, tableName):
        self.database =…
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