[jira] [Commented] (SPARK-13721) Add support for LATERAL VIEW OUTER explode()

["Don Drake (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Don Drake commented on SPARK-13721:
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Spark 2.0 has deprecated this function, what workarounds are suggested?

> Add support for LATERAL VIEW OUTER explode()
> --------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-13721
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-13721
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: SQL
>            Reporter: Ian Hellstrom
>
> Hive supports the [LATERAL VIEW OUTER|https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+LateralView#LanguageManualLateralView-OuterLateralViews] syntax to make sure that when an array is empty, the content from the outer table is still returned. 
> Within Spark, this is currently only possible within the HiveContext and executing HiveQL statements. It would be nice if the standard explode() DataFrame method allows the same. A possible signature would be: 
> {code:scala}
> explode[A, B](inputColumn: String, outputColumn: String, outer: Boolean = false)
> {code}



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