You need to use lateral view explode:
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/LanguageManual+LateralView
On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:02 AM, matthes <mdiekst...@sensenetworks.com>
wrote:
> I try to work with nested parquet data. To read and write the parquet file
> is
> actually working now but when I try to query a nested field with SqlContext
> I get an exception:
>
> RuntimeException: "Can't access nested field in type
> ArrayType(StructType(List(StructField(..."
>
> I generate the parquet file by parsing the data into the following
> caseclass
> structure:
>
> case class areas(area : String, dates : Seq[Int])
> case class dataset(userid : Long, source : Int, days : Seq[Int] , areas :
> Seq[areas] )
>
> automatic generated schema:
> root
> |-- userid: long (nullable = false)
> |-- source: integer (nullable = false)
> |-- days: array (nullable = true)
> | |-- element: integer (containsNull = false)
> |-- areas: array (nullable = true)
> | |-- element: struct (containsNull = true)
> | | |-- area: string (nullable = true)
> | | |-- dates: array (nullable = true)
> | | | |-- element: integer (containsNull = false)
>
> After writeing the Parquetfile I load the data again and I create a
> SQLContext and try to execute a sql-command like follows:
>
> parquetFile.registerTempTable("testtable")
> val result = sqlContext.sql("SELECT areas.area FROM testtable where userid
> >
> 500000")
> result.map(t => t(0)).collect().foreach(println) // throw the exception
>
> If I execute this command: val result = sqlContext.sql("SELECT
> areas[0].area
> FROM testtable where userid > 500000")
> I get only the values at the first position in the array but I need every
> value and that doesn't work.
> I sow the function t.getAs[...] but everything what I tried didn't worked.
>
> I hope somebody can help me how I can access a nested field that I read all
> values of the nested array or isn't it supported?
>
> I use spark-sql_2.10(v1.2.0), spark-core_2.10(v1.2.0) and parquet 1.6.0rc4.
>
>
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