Pyspark Create Empty Dataframe

create_empty_dataframe_pyspark.py

from pyspark.sql.types import StringType, FloatType, StructField, StructType
from pyspark.sql import SparkSession, SQLContext, Row
import pyspark

# spark initialization
spark_context = pyspark.SparkContext.getOrCreate()
spark_session = SparkSession(spark_context) \
                    .builder \
                    .enableHiveSupport() \
                    .getOrCreate()
sqlContext = SQLContext(spark_context)

field = [
    StructField("FIELDNAME_1",StringType(), True),
    StructField("FIELDNAME_2", FloatType(), True),
    StructField("FIELDNAME_3", StringType(), True)
]
schema = StructType(field)
df = sqlContext.createDataFrame(spark_context.emptyRDD(), schema)

df.printSchema()