Configuring table format/type detection

[Everett Anderson <ev...@nuna.com>]

Hi,

I've been using Zeppelin with Spark SQL recently.

One thing I've noticed that can be confusing is that Zeppelin attempts to
detect the type of column and format it. For example, for columns that
appear to have mostly numbers, it will put in commas.

Is there a way to configure it globally or per-interpreter type to disable
this?

Re: Configuring table format/type detection

[Everett Anderson <ev...@nuna.com>]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:01 AM, Alexander Bezzubov <bz...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi Everett,
>
> this is a very good question actually.
>
> Right now there is not, but it sounds as a great feature, so may be worth
> filing a JIRA issue.
>
> There was a discussion when this feature was contributed [1], [2] and
> there also is some work on having ability to manually override text\number
> column type from GUI, but AFAIK that was not finished yet.
>
>  1. https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1371
>  2. https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1363
>  3. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-1371
>

Thanks for the response and references!

I added this as a wishlist issue as
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-1760





>
> --
> Alex
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Everett Anderson <ev...@nuna.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using Zeppelin with Spark SQL recently.
>>
>> One thing I've noticed that can be confusing is that Zeppelin attempts to
>> detect the type of column and format it. For example, for columns that
>> appear to have mostly numbers, it will put in commas.
>>
>> Is there a way to configure it globally or per-interpreter type to
>> disable this?
>>
>>
>

Re: Configuring table format/type detection

[Alexander Bezzubov <bz...@apache.org>]

Hi Everett,

this is a very good question actually.

Right now there is not, but it sounds as a great feature, so may be worth
filing a JIRA issue.

There was a discussion when this feature was contributed [1], [2] and there
also is some work on having ability to manually override text\number column
type from GUI, but AFAIK that was not finished yet.

 1. https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1371
 2. https://github.com/apache/zeppelin/pull/1363
 3. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-1371

--
Alex

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:19 AM, Everett Anderson <ev...@nuna.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've been using Zeppelin with Spark SQL recently.
>
> One thing I've noticed that can be confusing is that Zeppelin attempts to
> detect the type of column and format it. For example, for columns that
> appear to have mostly numbers, it will put in commas.
>
> Is there a way to configure it globally or per-interpreter type to disable
> this?
>
>