[jira] [Created] (SPARK-2789) Apply names to RDD to becoming SchemaRDD

["Davies Liu (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Davies Liu created SPARK-2789:
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             Summary: Apply names to RDD to becoming SchemaRDD
                 Key: SPARK-2789
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-2789
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: New Feature
            Reporter: Davies Liu


In order to simplify apply schema, we could add an API called applyNames(), which will infer the types in the RDD and create an schema with names, then apply  this schema on it to becoming a SchemaRDD. The names could be provides by String with names separated  by space.

For example:

rdd = sc.parallelize([("Alice", 10)])
srdd = sqlCtx.applyNames(rdd, "name age")

User don't need to create an case class or StructType to have all power of Spark SQL.

The string presentation of schema also could support nested structure (MapType, ArrayType and StructType), for example:

"name age address(city zip) likes[title stars] props{[value type]}"

It will equal to unnamed schema:

root
|--name
|--age
|--address
|--|--city
|--|--zip
|--likes
|--|--element
|--|--|--title
|--|--|--starts
|--props
|--|--key:
|--|--value:
|--|--|--element
|--|--|--|--value
|--|--|--|--type

All the names of fields are seperated by space, the struct of field (if it is nested type) follows the name without space, wich shoud startswith "(" (StructType) or "[" (ArrayType) or "{" (MapType).






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