Barry Becker created SPARK-15230:
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             Summary: Back quoted column with dot in it fails when running 
distinct on dataframe
                 Key: SPARK-15230
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SPARK-15230
             Project: Spark
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Examples
    Affects Versions: 1.6.0
            Reporter: Barry Becker


When working with a dataframe columns with .'s in them must be backquoted (``) 
or the column name will not be found. This works for most dataframe methods, 
but I discovered that it does not work for describe().

Suppose you have a dataFrame, testDf, with a DoubleType column named 
"pos.NoZero".  This statememt:

testDf.select(new Column("`pos.NoZero`")).distinct().collect().mkString(", ")

will fail with this error:

org.apache.spark.sql.AnalysisException: Cannot resolve column name "pos.NoZero" 
among (pos.NoZero);

        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$$anonfun$resolve$1.apply(DataFrame.scala:152)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$$anonfun$resolve$1.apply(DataFrame.scala:152)
        at scala.Option.getOrElse(Option.scala:121)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.resolve(DataFrame.scala:151)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$$anonfun$dropDuplicates$1$$anonfun$40.apply(DataFrame.scala:1329)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$$anonfun$dropDuplicates$1$$anonfun$40.apply(DataFrame.scala:1329)
        at 
scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:245)
        at 
scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:245)
        at 
scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:33)
        at scala.collection.mutable.WrappedArray.foreach(WrappedArray.scala:35)
        at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:245)
        at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:104)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$$anonfun$dropDuplicates$1.apply(DataFrame.scala:1329)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame$$anonfun$dropDuplicates$1.apply(DataFrame.scala:1328)
        at 
org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.org$apache$spark$sql$DataFrame$$withPlan(DataFrame.scala:2165)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.dropDuplicates(DataFrame.scala:1328)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.dropDuplicates(DataFrame.scala:1348)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.dropDuplicates(DataFrame.scala:1319)
        at org.apache.spark.sql.DataFrame.distinct(DataFrame.scala:1612)
        at 
com.mineset.spark.vizagg.selection.SelectionExpressionSuite$$anonfun$40.apply$mcV$sp(SelectionExpressionSuite.scala:317)





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