Re: Questions about the future of UDTs and Encoders

2017-08-16 Thread Katherine Prevost
) === a.bytes) res9: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [(a.bytes AS `bytes` = X'01020304'): boolean] It's worth noting that an implicit conversion from IPAddress to Array[Byte] or to Column wouldn't work here, because === accepts Any. katherine. > On 15. Aug 2017, at 18:49,

Questions about the future of UDTs and Encoders

2017-08-15 Thread Katherine Prevost
ere to start. We'd like to avoid stepping in the way of any efforts that might already be underway to improve these mechanisms. Thanks very much! Katherine Prevost Carnegie Mellon / Software Engineering Institute / CERT &