Answering my own question (for those who are interested): val schema = df.schema val jsonString = schema.json val backToSchema = DataType.fromJson(jsonString).asInstanceOf[StructType]
From: Mendelson, Assaf [mailto:assaf.mendel...@rsa.com] Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2016 11:11 AM To: user Subject: Creating schema from json representation Hi, I am trying to save a spark dataframe schema in scala. I can do df.schema.json to get the json string representation. Now I want to get the schema back from the json. However, it seems I need to parse the json string myself, get its fields object and generate the fields manually. Is there a better way? Assaf.
