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Sean Owen commented on SPARK-26224:
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The most realistic thing I can imagine is exposing `withColumns`.
But for this use case, there are pretty easy workarounds, like just mapping the 
DataFrame Rows to contain a bunch more 0s and specifying your new schema.

> Results in stackOverFlowError when trying to add 3000 new columns using 
> withColumn function of dataframe.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: SPARK-26224
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-26224
>             Project: Spark
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: SQL
>    Affects Versions: 2.3.0
>         Environment: On macbook, used Intellij editor. Ran the above sample 
> code as unit test.
>            Reporter: Dorjee Tsering
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Reproduction step:
> Run this sample code on your laptop. I am trying to add 3000 new columns to a 
> base dataframe with 1 column.
>  
>  
> {code:java}
> import spark.implicits._
> val newColumnsToBeAdded : Seq[StructField] = for (i <- 1 to 3000) yield new 
> StructField("field_" + i, DataTypes.LongType)
> val baseDataFrame: DataFrame = Seq((1)).toDF("employee_id")
> val result = newColumnsToBeAdded.foldLeft(baseDataFrame)((df, newColumn) => 
> df.withColumn(newColumn.name, lit(0)))
> result.show(false)
>  
> {code}
> Ends up with following stacktrace:
> java.lang.StackOverflowError
>  at 
> scala.collection.generic.GenTraversableFactory$GenericCanBuildFrom.apply(GenTraversableFactory.scala:57)
>  at 
> scala.collection.generic.GenTraversableFactory$GenericCanBuildFrom.apply(GenTraversableFactory.scala:52)
>  at 
> scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.builder$1(TraversableLike.scala:229)
>  at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:233)
>  at scala.collection.immutable.List.map(List.scala:296)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$4.apply(TreeNode.scala:333)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.mapProductIterator(TreeNode.scala:187)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.mapChildren(TreeNode.scala:304)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.transformDown(TreeNode.scala:272)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$transformDown$1.apply(TreeNode.scala:272)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$transformDown$1.apply(TreeNode.scala:272)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$4.apply(TreeNode.scala:306)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.mapProductIterator(TreeNode.scala:187)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.mapChildren(TreeNode.scala:304)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.transformDown(TreeNode.scala:272)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$transformDown$1.apply(TreeNode.scala:272)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$transformDown$1.apply(TreeNode.scala:272)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode$$anonfun$4.apply(TreeNode.scala:306)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.mapProductIterator(TreeNode.scala:187)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.mapChildren(TreeNode.scala:304)
>  at 
> org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.trees.TreeNode.transformDown(TreeNode.scala:272)



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