Added accessor methods for Pipeline

Author: Pravin Gadakh

mllib/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/ml/Pipeline.scala

@@ -111,6 +111,18 @@ class Pipeline @Since("1.4.0") (
   @Since("1.2.0")
   def getStages: Array[PipelineStage] = $(stages).clone()
 
+  /** Returns stage at index i in Pipeline */
+  @Since("2.0.0")
+  def getStage[T <: PipelineStage](i: Int): T = getStages.apply(i).asInstanceOf[T]
+
+  /** Returns all stages of this type */
+  @Since("2.0.0")
+  def getStagesOfType[T <: PipelineStage]: Array[T] = {
+    getStages.collect {
+      case stage: T => stage
+    }
+  }
+
   /**
    * Fits the pipeline to the input dataset with additional parameters. If a stage is an
    * [[Estimator]], its [[Estimator#fit]] method will be called on the input dataset to fit a model.
@@ -309,6 +321,32 @@ class PipelineModel private[ml] (
 
   @Since("1.6.0")
   override def write: MLWriter = new PipelineModel.PipelineModelWriter(this)
+
+  /** Returns stage at index i in PipelineModel */
+  @Since("2.0.0")
+  def getStage[T <: Transformer](i: Int): T = {
+    stages.apply(i).asInstanceOf[T]
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns stage given its parent or generating instance in PipelineModel.
+   * E.g., if this PipelineModel was created from a Pipeline containing a stage
+   * {{myStage}}, then passing {{myStage}} to this method will return the
+   * corresponding stage in this PipelineModel.
+   */
+  @Since("2.0.0")
+  def getStage[T <: Transformer, E <: PipelineStage](stage: E): T = {
+    val idxInPipeline = this.parent.asInstanceOf[Pipeline].getStages.indexOf(stage)
+    stages.apply(idxInPipeline).asInstanceOf[T]
+  }
+
+  /** Returns all stages of this type */
+  @Since("2.0.0")
+  def getStagesOfType[T <: Transformer]: Array[T] = {
+    stages.collect {
+      case stage: T => stage
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 @Since("1.6.0")