Re: [I] Record should take advantage of RecordType (if used) [wayang]

["AjayBoddeda4 (via GitHub)" <gi...@apache.org>]

AjayBoddeda4 commented on issue #542:
URL: https://github.com/apache/wayang/issues/542#issuecomment-4105475052

   Hi, I am Ajay Boddeda, a GSoC 2026 applicant working on the DataFrames API proposal for Apache Wayang.
   This issue is directly relevant to my proposal. In the DataFrame API I am designing, the Schema class maps column names to their types and positions — which is exactly what would enable retrieving data by field name rather than by index.
   In the Row class I am planning to implement, the getAttribute(String columnName) method would use the Schema to look up the correct index internally. This way users never need to know the index — they just use column names like df.select('age') and the Schema handles the position lookup automatically.
   This approach makes the DataFrame API much more user friendly and aligns with how Spark Dataset[Row] works. Would love to contribute to this as part of the broader DataFrame API work.


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