Generic_Schema.python

import org.apache.spark.sql.types._

// Create an RDD
val peopleRDD = spark.sparkContext.textFile("examples/src/main/resources/people.txt")

// The schema is encoded in a string
val schemaString = "name age"

// Generate the schema based on the string of schema
val fields = schemaString.split(" ")
  .map(fieldName => StructField(fieldName, StringType, nullable = true))
val schema = StructType(fields)

// Convert records of the RDD (people) to Rows
val rowRDD = peopleRDD
  .map(_.split(","))
  .map(attributes => Row(attributes(0), attributes(1).trim))

// Apply the schema to the RDD
val peopleDF = spark.createDataFrame(rowRDD, schema)

// Creates a temporary view using the DataFrame
peopleDF.createOrReplaceTempView("people")

// SQL can be run over a temporary view created using DataFrames
val results = spark.sql("SELECT name FROM people")

// The results of SQL queries are DataFrames and support all the normal RDD operations
// The columns of a row in the result can be accessed by field index or by field name
results.map(attributes => "Name: " + attributes(0)).show()
// +-------------+
// |        value|
// +-------------+
// |Name: Michael|
// |   Name: Andy|
// | Name: Justin|
// +-------------+

# Import data types
from pyspark.sql.types import *

sc = spark.sparkContext

# Load a text file and convert each line to a Row.
lines = sc.textFile("examples/src/main/resources/people.txt")
parts = lines.map(lambda l: l.split(","))
# Each line is converted to a tuple.
people = parts.map(lambda p: (p[0], p[1].strip()))

# The schema is encoded in a string.
schemaString = "name age"

fields = [StructField(field_name, StringType(), True) for field_name in schemaString.split()]
schema = StructType(fields)

# Apply the schema to the RDD.
schemaPeople = spark.createDataFrame(people, schema)

# Creates a temporary view using the DataFrame
schemaPeople.createOrReplaceTempView("people")

# SQL can be run over DataFrames that have been registered as a table.
results = spark.sql("SELECT name FROM people")