I'm not sure you can parse this as an Array, but you can hint to the parser that you would like to treat source as a map instead of as a struct. This is a good strategy when you have dynamic columns in your data.
Here is an example of the schema you can use to parse this JSON and also how to use explode to turn it into separate rows <https://databricks-prod-cloudfront.cloud.databricks.com/public/4027ec902e239c93eaaa8714f173bcfc/1023043053387187/679071429109042/2840265927289860/latest.html>. This blog post has more on working with semi-structured data in Spark <https://databricks.com/blog/2017/02/23/working-complex-data-formats-structured-streaming-apache-spark-2-1.html> . On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Yong Zhang <java8...@hotmail.com> wrote: > That's why your "source" should be defined as an Array[Struct] type (which > makes sense in this case, it has an undetermined length , so you can > explode it and get the description easily. > > Now you need write your own UDF, maybe can do what you want. > > Yong > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Selvam Raman <sel...@gmail.com> > *Sent:* Thursday, March 23, 2017 5:03 PM > *To:* user > *Subject:* how to read object field within json file > > Hi, > > { > "id": "test1", > "source": { > "F1": { > "id": "4970", > "eId": "F1", > "description": "test1", > }, > "F2": { > "id": "5070", > "eId": "F2", > "description": "test2", > }, > "F3": { > "id": "5170", > "eId": "F3", > "description": "test3", > }, > "F4":{} > etc.. > "F999":{} > } > > I am having bzip json files like above format. > some json row contains two objects within source(like F1 and F2), sometime > five(F1,F2,F3,F4,F5),etc. So the final schema will contains combination of > all objects for the source field. > > Now, every row will contain n number of objects but only some contains > valid records. > how can i retreive the value of "description" in "source" field. > > source.F1.description - returns the result but how can i get all > description result for every row..(something like this > "source.*.description"). > > -- > Selvam Raman > "லஞ்சம் தவிர்த்து நெஞ்சம் நிமிர்த்து" >
