I figured it out. Needed a block style map and a check for null. The case class is just to name the transformed columns.
case class Component(name: String, loadTimeMs: Long) avroFile.filter($"lazyComponents.components".isNotNull) .explode($"lazyComponents.components") { case Row(lazyComponents: Seq[Row]) => lazyComponents .map { x => val name = x.getString(0); val loadTimeMs = if (x.isNullAt(1)) 0 else x.getLong(1); Component(name, loadTimeMs) } } .select('pageViewId, 'name, 'loadTimeMs).take(20).foreach(println) On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 12:05 PM Tom Seddon <mr.tom.sed...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I've worked out how to use explode on my input avro dataset with the > following structure > root > |-- pageViewId: string (nullable = false) > |-- components: array (nullable = true) > | |-- element: struct (containsNull = false) > | | |-- name: string (nullable = false) > | | |-- loadTimeMs: long (nullable = true) > > > I'm trying to turn this into this layout with repeated pageViewIds for > each row of my components: > root > |-- pageViewId: string (nullable = false) > |-- name: string (nullable = false) > |-- loadTimeMs: long (nullable = true) > > Explode words fine for the first 10 records using this bit of code, but my > big problem is that loadTimeMs has nulls in it, which I think is causing > the error. Any ideas how I can trap those nulls? Perhaps by converting to > zeros and then I can deal with them later? I tried writing a udf which > just takes the loadTimeMs column and swaps nulls for zeros, but this > separates the struct and then I don't know how to use explode. > > avroFile.filter($"lazyComponents.components".isNotNull) > .explode($"lazyComponents.components") > { case Row(lazyComponents: Seq[Row]) => lazyComponents > .map(x => x.getString(0) -> x.getLong(1))} > .select('pageViewId, '_1, '_2) > .take(10).foreach(println) > > 15/06/04 12:01:21 ERROR Executor: Exception in task 0.0 in stage 19.0 (TID > 65) > java.lang.RuntimeException: Failed to check null bit for primitive long > value. > at scala.sys.package$.error(package.scala:27) > at > org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.GenericRow.getLong(rows.scala:87) > at > $line127.$read$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$anonfun$1$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(<console>:33) > at > $line127.$read$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$anonfun$1$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(<console>:33) > at > scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244) > at > scala.collection.TraversableLike$$anonfun$map$1.apply(TraversableLike.scala:244) > at > scala.collection.IndexedSeqOptimized$class.foreach(IndexedSeqOptimized.scala:33) > at scala.collection.mutable.WrappedArray.foreach(WrappedArray.scala:34) > at scala.collection.TraversableLike$class.map(TraversableLike.scala:244) > at scala.collection.AbstractTraversable.map(Traversable.scala:105) > at > $line127.$read$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$anonfun$1.apply(<console>:33) > at > $line127.$read$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$iwC$$anonfun$1.apply(<console>:33) > at scala.Function1$$anonfun$andThen$1.apply(Function1.scala:55) > at > org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.expressions.UserDefinedGenerator.eval(generators.scala:89) > at > org.apache.spark.sql.execution.Generate$$anonfun$2$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(Generate.scala:71) > at > org.apache.spark.sql.execution.Generate$$anonfun$2$$anonfun$apply$1.apply(Generate.scala:70) > at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$13.hasNext(Iterator.scala:371) > at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$11.hasNext(Iterator.scala:327) > at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$11.hasNext(Iterator.scala:327) > at scala.collection.Iterator$$anon$10.hasNext(Iterator.scala:308) > at scala.collection.Iterator$class.foreach(Iterator.scala:727) > at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.foreach(Iterator.scala:1157) > at scala.collection.generic.Growable$class.$plus$plus$eq(Growable.scala:48) > at > scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.$plus$plus$eq(ArrayBuffer.scala:103) > at scala.collection.mutable.ArrayBuffer.$plus$plus$eq(ArrayBuffer.scala:47) > at scala.collection.TraversableOnce$class.to(TraversableOnce.scala:273) > at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.to(Iterator.scala:1157) > at > scala.collection.TraversableOnce$class.toBuffer(TraversableOnce.scala:265) > at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.toBuffer(Iterator.scala:1157) > at > scala.collection.TraversableOnce$class.toArray(TraversableOnce.scala:252) > at scala.collection.AbstractIterator.toArray(Iterator.scala:1157) > at > org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$2.apply(SparkPlan.scala:122) > at > org.apache.spark.sql.execution.SparkPlan$$anonfun$2.apply(SparkPlan.scala:122) > at > org.apache.spark.SparkContext$$anonfun$runJob$5.apply(SparkContext.scala:1498) > at > org.apache.spark.SparkContext$$anonfun$runJob$5.apply(SparkContext.scala:1498) > at org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:61) > at org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:64) > at org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:203) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) > at > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744) > > >