feat: Add possibility to save dataset as table, when spark config has remote warehouse info (feast-dev#3645)

feat: add possibility to save dataset as table, when spark config has remote warehouse info

Signed-off-by: nsuraeva <nsuraeva@neoflex.ru>
Co-authored-by: nsuraeva <nsuraeva@neoflex.ru>

Author: nadejdaSuraeva

sdk/python/feast/infra/offline_stores/contrib/spark_offline_store/spark.py

@@ -352,13 +352,36 @@ def persist(
     ):
         """
         Run the retrieval and persist the results in the same offline store used for read.
-        Please note the persisting is done only within the scope of the spark session.
+        Please note the persisting is done only within the scope of the spark session for local warehouse directory.
         """
         assert isinstance(storage, SavedDatasetSparkStorage)
         table_name = storage.spark_options.table
         if not table_name:
             raise ValueError("Cannot persist, table_name is not defined")
-        self.to_spark_df().createOrReplaceTempView(table_name)
+        if self._has_remote_warehouse_in_config():
+            file_format = storage.spark_options.file_format
+            if not file_format:
+                self.to_spark_df().write.saveAsTable(table_name)
+            else:
+                self.to_spark_df().write.format(file_format).saveAsTable(table_name)
+        else:
+            self.to_spark_df().createOrReplaceTempView(table_name)
+
+    def _has_remote_warehouse_in_config(self) -> bool:
+        """
+        Check if Spark Session config has info about hive metastore uri
+        or warehouse directory is not a local path
+        """
+        self.spark_session.sparkContext.getConf().getAll()
+        try:
+            self.spark_session.conf.get("hive.metastore.uris")
+            return True
+        except Exception:
+            warehouse_dir = self.spark_session.conf.get("spark.sql.warehouse.dir")
+            if warehouse_dir and warehouse_dir.startswith("file:"):
+                return False
+            else:
+                return True
 
     def supports_remote_storage_export(self) -> bool:
         return self._config.offline_store.staging_location is not None