I am doing it by creating a new data frame out of the fields to be nested
and then join with the original DF.
Looking for some optimized solution here.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Rishabh Bhardwaj <rbnex...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I want to have some nesting structure from the existing columns of
> the dataframe.
> For that,,I am trying to transform a DF in the following way,but couldn't
> do it.
>
> scala> df.printSchema
> root
>  |-- a: string (nullable = true)
>  |-- b: string (nullable = true)
>  |-- c: string (nullable = true)
>  |-- d: string (nullable = true)
>  |-- e: string (nullable = true)
>  |-- f: string (nullable = true)
>
> *To*
>
> scala> newDF.printSchema
> root
>  |-- a: string (nullable = true)
>  |-- b: string (nullable = true)
>  |-- c: string (nullable = true)
>  |-- newCol: struct (nullable = true)
>  |    |-- d: string (nullable = true)
>  |    |-- e: string (nullable = true)
>
>
> help me.
>
> Regards,
> Rishabh.
>

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