[SPARK-21987][SQL] fix a compatibility issue of sql event logs

sql/core/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/SparkPlanInfo.scala

@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 
 package org.apache.spark.sql.execution
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonIgnoreProperties
+
 import org.apache.spark.annotation.DeveloperApi
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.exchange.ReusedExchangeExec
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.metric.SQLMetricInfo
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.metric.SQLMetricInfo
  * Stores information about a SQL SparkPlan.
  */
 @DeveloperApi
+@JsonIgnoreProperties(Array("metadata")) // The metadata filed was removed in Spark 2.3.
 class SparkPlanInfo(
     val nodeName: String,
     val simpleString: String,

sql/core/src/test/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/execution/SQLJsonProtocolSuite.scala

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
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+
+package org.apache.spark.sql.execution
+
+import org.json4s.jackson.JsonMethods.parse
+
+import org.apache.spark.SparkFunSuite
+import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.ui.SparkListenerSQLExecutionStart
+import org.apache.spark.util.JsonProtocol
+
+class SQLJsonProtocolSuite extends SparkFunSuite {
+
+  test("SparkPlanGraph backward compatibility: metadata") {
+    val reconstructedEvent = JsonProtocol.sparkEventFromJson(parse(SQLExecutionStartJsonString))
+    val expectedEvent = SparkListenerSQLExecutionStart(0, "test desc", "test detail", "test plan",
+      new SparkPlanInfo("TestNode", "test string", Nil, Nil), 0)
+    assert(reconstructedEvent == expectedEvent)
+  }
+
+  private val SQLExecutionStartJsonString =
+    """
+      |{
+      |  "Event":"org.apache.spark.sql.execution.ui.SparkListenerSQLExecutionStart",
+      |  "executionId":0,
+      |  "description":"test desc",
+      |  "details":"test detail",
+      |  "physicalPlanDescription":"test plan",
+      |  "sparkPlanInfo": {
+      |    "nodeName":"TestNode",
+      |    "simpleString":"test string",
+      |    "children":[],
+      |    "metadata":{},
+      |    "metrics":[]
+      |  },
+      |  "time":0
+      |}
+    """.stripMargin
+}