I believe you could use JOLT (bazaarvoice/jolt) to flatten it to a json string and then to dataframe or dataset.
| | | | | | | | | | | bazaarvoice/jolt jolt - JSON to JSON transformation library written in Java. | | | On Monday, July 17, 2017, 11:18:24 PM PDT, Chetan Khatri <chetan.opensou...@gmail.com> wrote: Explode is not working in this scenario with error - string cannot be used in explore either array or map in spark On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:39 AM, 刘虓 <ipf...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi,have you tried to use explode? Chetan Khatri <chetan.opensou...@gmail.com> 于2017年7月18日 周二下午2:06写道: Hello Spark Dev's, Can you please guide me, how to flatten JSON to multiple columns in Spark. Example: | Sr No | Title | ISBN | Info | | 1 | Calculus Theory | 1234567890 | [{"cert":[{ "authSbmtr":"009415da-c8cd- 418d-869e-0a19601d79fa", 009415da-c8cd-418d-869e- 0a19601d79fa "certUUID":"03ea5a1a-5530- 4fa3-8871-9d1ebac627c4", "effDt":"2016-05-06T15:04:56. 279Z", "fileFmt":"rjrCsv","status":" live"}], "expdCnt":"15", "mfgAcctNum":"531093", "oUUID":"23d07397-4fbe-4897- 8a18-b79c9f64726c", "pgmRole":["RETAILER"], "pgmUUID":"1cb5dd63-817a-45bc- a15c-5660e4accd63", "regUUID":"cc1bd898-657d-40dc- af5d-4bf1569a1cc4", "rtlrsSbmtd":["009415da-c8cd- 418d-869e-0a19601d79fa"]}] | I want to get single row with 11 columns. Thanks.