Unity Catalog Shared Access Mode - dbutils.notebook.entry_point...getContext() not whitelisted

[nccodemonkey]

we are switching over to Unity Catalog and attempting to confirm the ability to run our existing notebooks. I have created a new Shared Unity Catalog Cluster and ran the notebook using the new cluster. Ran into an error attempting to execute a print statement. The information is displayed using the original cluster, and will also display the information when running the UC cluster in a single Access mode, but NOT "Shared"

print(dbutils.notebook.entry_point.getDbutils().notebook().getContext().toJson())

Error Returned:

py4j.security.Py4JSecurityException: Method public java.lang.String com.databricks.backend.common.rpc.CommandContext.toJson() is not whitelisted on class class com.databricks.backend.common.rpc.CommandContext

Has anyone determined the appropriate work around for this scenario?

[jdev220999]

Any updates on this problem?

[Corbin]

Depending on what you're trying to do with dbutils.notebook.entry_point.getDbutils().notebook().getContext().toJson() , there could be some workarounds. If all you're trying to do is get information like the job_id, run_id, time of run, etc. you can just use dynamic value references in the job. So for instance, in a notebook, you could say:

dbutils.widgets.text("job_id","")
job_id = dbutils.widgets.get("job_id")

Then in your task, when you specify params, you could use the dynamic value to pass the appropriate runtime value to the widget like so:

You can also do this as a job parameter if you need this value passed to all jobs.

Hope this helps someone who is using the context json for this simple purpose!

[JakubMlacki]

I faced the same issue when switching to Shared Access cluster and found that there is a possibility to run :

dbutils.notebook.entry_point.getDbutils().notebook().getContext().safeToJson()

Hope this helps

[nise_vitoriano]

this works here, thank you!