Thanks, guys. Michael Armbrust also suggested the same two approaches. I believe “getAs[Date]” is available only in 1.2 branch and I have Spark 1.1, so I am using row(i).asInstanceOf[Date], which works.
Mohammed From: Shixiong Zhu [mailto:zsxw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2014 10:23 PM To: Zhan Zhang Cc: Mohammed Guller; user@spark.apache.org Subject: Re: how to retrieve the value of a column of type date/timestamp from a Spark SQL Row Or "def getAs[T](i: Int): T" Best Regards, Shixiong Zhu 2014-10-29 13:16 GMT+08:00 Zhan Zhang <zzh...@hortonworks.com<mailto:zzh...@hortonworks.com>>: Can you use row(i).asInstanceOf[] Thanks. Zhan Zhang On Oct 28, 2014, at 5:03 PM, Mohammed Guller <moham...@glassbeam.com<mailto:moham...@glassbeam.com>> wrote: Hi – The Spark SQL Row class has methods such as getInt, getLong, getBoolean, getFloat, getDouble, etc. However, I don’t see a getDate method. So how can one retrieve a date/timestamp type column from a result set? Thanks, Mohammed CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE NOTICE: This message is intended for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information that is confidential, privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any printing, copying, dissemination, distribution, disclosure or forwarding of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender immediately and delete it from your system. Thank You.
