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[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-22505) toDF() / createDataFrame() type
inference doesn't work as expected
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Hyukjin Kwon commented on SPARK-22505:
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You should set the option `inferSchema`
> toDF() / createDataFrame() type inference doesn't work as expected
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: SPARK-22505
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-22505
> Project: Spark
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: PySpark, Spark Core
> Affects Versions: 2.2.0, 2.3.0
> Reporter: Ruslan Dautkhanov
> Priority: Major
> Labels: csvparser, inference, pyspark, schema, spark-sql
>
> {code}
> df = sc.parallelize([('1','a'),('2','b'),('3','c')]).toDF(['should_be_int','should_be_str'])
> df.printSchema()
> {code}
> produces
> {noformat}
> root
> |-- should_be_int: string (nullable = true)
> |-- should_be_str: string (nullable = true)
> {noformat}
> Notice `should_be_int` has `string` datatype, according to documentation:
> https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html#inferring-the-schema-using-reflection
> {quote}
> Spark SQL can convert an RDD of Row objects to a DataFrame, inferring the datatypes. Rows are constructed by passing a list of key/value pairs as kwargs to the Row class. The keys of this list define the column names of the table, *and the types are inferred by sampling the whole dataset*, similar to the inference that is performed on JSON files.
> {quote}
> Schema inference works as expected when reading delimited files like
> {code}
> spark.read.format('csv').option('inferSchema', True)...
> {code}
> but not when using toDF() / createDataFrame() API calls.
> Spark 2.2.
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