should we change "def schema" to show the materialized schema? On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Michael Armbrust <mich...@databricks.com> wrote:
> Encoders are just an object based view on a Dataset. Until you actually > materialize and object, they are not used and thus will not change the > schema of the dataframe. > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Koert Kuipers <ko...@tresata.com> wrote: > >> scala> val x = Seq("a", "b").toDF("x") >> x: org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame = [x: string] >> >> scala> x.as[Array[Byte]].printSchema >> root >> |-- x: string (nullable = true) >> >> scala> x.as[Array[Byte]].map(x => x).printSchema >> root >> |-- value: binary (nullable = true) >> >> why does the first schema show string instead of binary? >> > >