Also it looks like that when I store the String in parquet and try to fetch them using spark code I got classcast exception
below how my array of strings are saved. each character ascii value is present in array of ints res25: Array[Seq[String]] r= Array(ArrayBuffer(Array(104, 116, 116, 112, 58, 47, 47, 102, 98, 46, 109, 101, 47, 51, 67, 111, 72, 108, 99, 101, 77, 103)), ArrayBuffer(), ArrayBuffer(), ArrayBuffer(), ArrayBuffer(Array(104, 116, 116, 112, 58, 47, 47, 105, 110, 115, 116, 97, 103, 114, 97, 109, 46, 99, 111, 109, 47, 112, 47, 120, 84, 50, 51, 78, 76, 105, 85, 55, 102, 47)), ArrayBuffer(), ArrayBuffer(Array(104, 116, 116, 112, 58, 47, 47, 105, 110, 115, 116, 97, 103, 114, 97, 109, 46, 99, 111, 109, 47, 112, 47, 120, 84, 50, 53, 72, 52, 111, 90, 95, 114, 47)), ArrayBuffer(Array(104, 116, 116, 112, 58, 47, 47, 101, 122, 101, 101, 99, 108, 97, 115, 115, 105, 102, 105, 101, 100, 97, 100, 115, 46, 99, 111, 109, 47, 47, 100, 101, 115, 99, 47, 106, 97, 105, 112, 117, 114, 47, 49, 48, 51, 54, 50, 50, -- View this message in context: http://apache-spark-user-list.1001560.n3.nabble.com/Reading-nested-JSON-data-with-Spark-SQL-tp19310p20935.html Sent from the Apache Spark User List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@spark.apache.org