From 1f661893b83e182c41d1a57dbdfab85f511765ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Reynold Xin <rxin@databricks.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:25:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [SPARK-16615][SQL] Expose sqlContext in SparkSession

---
 .../src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SparkSession.scala    | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SparkSession.scala b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SparkSession.scala
index 1a40b7e2c13cb..2ade36d075027 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SparkSession.scala
+++ b/sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/SparkSession.scala
@@ -115,9 +115,11 @@ class SparkSession private(
 
   /**
    * A wrapped version of this session in the form of a [[SQLContext]], for backward compatibility.
+   *
+   * @since 2.0.0
    */
   @transient
-  private[spark] val sqlContext: SQLContext = new SQLContext(this)
+  val sqlContext: SQLContext = new SQLContext(this)
 
   /**
    * Runtime configuration interface for Spark.